Sarcophagus Lid
Object Number:
MS3488B
Current Location:
Etruscan Italy Gallery
Culture:
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Civita Musarna
Date Made:
399-200 bc
Early Date:
-399
Late Date:
-200
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Tuff
Tufa
Technique:
Carved
Iconography:
Man
Mirror?
Description:
Tufa. Man with plain rolled fillet around head reclines on lid. Holds mirror(?). At foot a cushionlike gable between scrolls. Traces of paint: red on rear drapery, yellow for necklace and on hair. Chest: (certainly not belonging) two bearded sea serpents, facing, on front. Back of chest roughly hammered and chisel-dressed. Uninscribed. Male Effigy. Lid in two pieces; front left corner of chest is broken off.
Height:
49cm
Length:
205cm
Depth:
56cm
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)
Bibliography:
[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 54, 260-262
[Catalogue] White, Donald and Ann Blair Brownlee, Irene Bald Romano, Jean MacIntosh Turfa. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 39
[Article] 1900. Rare Etruscan Sarcophagi in the University Museum , in Philadelphia Press. : Page/Fig./Plate: 1
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