Sarcophagus

Object Number:

MS3491A

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Etruscan

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Civita Musarna

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Tuff
Paint

Technique:

Painted

Iconography:

Inscription

Description:

Tufa badly abraded on edges near foot. Red paint preserved on hair. Mended with bolts and iron bends at knees. Gouge in proper left cheek. Chest: Plain, finished in rough short chisel-strokes. Cutting is best of Musarna group. With ? stone inscription.

Height:

63cm

Length:

220cm

Width:

66cm

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 56

[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.

[Article] 1900. Rare Etruscan Sarcophagi in the University Museum , in Philadelphia Press.

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