Urn

Object Number: | 57-3-1A |
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Current Location: |
Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
Provenience: | Mediterranean |
Date Made: | 3rd-2nd c. BCE |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Ceramic Paint |
Technique: | Painted |
Iconography: | Head Etruscan Inscription |
Height: | 31 cm |
Length: | 34.8 cm |
Width: | 17 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1957 |
Description
Rectangular box-shaped urn, all faces plain except for front which is decorated in relief with frontal head wearing peaked, winged cap. Fillet tied in loops at level of ears, ending in streamers; acanthus leaves beneath chin. Architectural frame: Corinthian columns, Ionic dentils above. Avobe dentils a retrograde etruscan inscription. Top of "a" has rectangular hole rounded at ends .22 long by .075 wide. Abundant traces of paint on relief decoration of red on cap, hair, eyebrows, outline of eye and pupil, lips, central vein of acanthus; blue over white on wings; traces of white on fillet. Inscription in red paint. Red in fluting on columns, blue and red in Corinthian capitals; yellow on dentils.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Classical World - 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.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 139-141, no. 102; p. C2, pl.7 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M., and Romano, Irene B., and Brownlee, Ann B., and White, Donald J. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 24, no. 36 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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