Sarcophagus Lid - MS3488B | Collections

Object Number:	MS3488B
Current Location:	Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display
Culture:	Etruscan
Provenience:	Italy Etruria Civita Musarna
Date Made:	399-200 bc
Early Date:	-399
Late Date:	-200
Section:	Mediterranean
Materials:	Nenfro
Technique:	Carved
Iconography:	Man Mirror?
Height:	49cm
Length:	205cm
Depth:	56cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1900

Description

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.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

	Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

	[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 54, fig. 35; pp. 260-262, no. 293	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Catalogue, Exhibition] White, Donald, et al. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 39, no. 58	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Article] 1900. Rare Etruscan Sarcophagi in the University Museum , in Philadelphia Press. : Page/Fig./Plate: 1	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: p.185, no.3	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference