Sarcophagus Lid
Object Number:
MS3489B
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Civita Musarna
Etruria
Date Made:
350-250 BC
Early Date:
-350
Late Date:
-250
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Nenfro
Tuff
Iconography:
Man
Patera
Inscription
Description:
Very sketchily sculpted in a linear style, reclining man with patera. Inscriptions: A. On front edge of lid, letters cut then painted in red. B. dipinto on pillow, same, in two lines
Height:
92cm
Length:
220cm
Width:
68cm
Bibliography:
[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 55
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.
[Book] Bates, William N. 1905. "The Etruscan inscriptions in the Museum". I no. III:165-168. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 166, no. 3 and 4
[Article] Furtwangler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905).
[Article] 1900. Rare Etruscan Sarcophagi in the University Museum , in Philadelphia Press.
[Journal] Sitzungsberichte, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 506
[Book] Pasqui, A. 1903. "Regione VII (Etruria)". p. 119.
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