Cinerary Chest
Object Number:
MS2458A
Current Location:
Etruscan Italy Gallery
Culture:
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Volterra
Date Made:
Late 3rd century BC
Early Date:
-250
Late Date:
-200
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Marble (Stone)
Technique:
Carved
Iconography:
Murder of Aegisthus?
Etruscan Inscription
Description:
Marble, now grayish, mended with cement at corners. Cover has, in the round, figure male, fully draped, reclining on pillows and holding patera; he wears a round cap with flaps tying under chin; a roll like long fillet(?) around his neck. Front of chest carved in high relief with scene: Murder of Aegistheus(?) Inscription cut along whole front edge of lid. "Lare Remza Arnoal, whose ashes were deposited in this sarcophagus, appears from the inscription to have been a ZILAT or magistrate. He is shown reclining on the lid, holding a patera. The scene on the front may represent the murder of Aegistheus." = gallery label 1970-72.
Credit Line:
Purchased at Coleman Estate Sale (Davis & Harvey); funding by Phebe A. Hearst
Other Number:
| 244 | - | Coleman Sale Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions:
The Classical World: Italy ( Jun 1958 - 1969)
Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000)
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: 263-264, C8
[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: 38
[Journal] Benelli, E. "Le Inscrizioni funarari chiusine di eta ellenitiche" Vol.: 64. : Page/Fig./Plate: 238
[Book] Horne, Lee C. 1985. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 33
[Book] Edwards, G. R. 1958. "Itay and Rome". Vol. 22 No. 2 (June). p. 5-11.
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: 187
[Book] Bates, William N. 1905. "The Etruscan inscriptions in the Museum". I no. III:165-168. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 166-7, no. 6
[Catalogue] 1897. The Robert H. Coleman Collection of Archaeological Objects. Catalogue.
[Book] Fabretti, Ariodante. 1867. Corpus Inscriptionum Italicarum. : Page/Fig./Plate: no. 694, pl. 31
[Book] Pauli, Carolus. 1893. Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum. : Page/Fig./Plate: no. 1192
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