Sarcophagus
| Object Number: | MS3488A |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Etruscan |
| Provenience: | Italy Etruria Civita Musarna |
| Locus: | near Viterbo |
| Date Made: | 299-200 BCE |
| Early Date: | -299 |
| Late Date: | -200 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Nenfro Tuff |
| Technique: | Carved Painted |
| Iconography: | Sea Serpent Man Mirror? |
| Height: | 57.5 cm |
| Length: | 192 cm |
| Depth: | 66 cm |
| 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:
| 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: p. 54, fig. 35; pp. 260-262, no. 293 | 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. 39, no. 58 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Catalano, V. 1982. Da Musarna a San Francisco. Le vicende dei sarcophagi degli Aletnas, dei Rufii, dei Cravatura e delle gens Ursetia.. Arti Grafiche Scalia. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 58-9, no. 12 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 185, no. 3 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Furtwängler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905).. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 255, no. 6 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] 30 Dec 1900. "Rare Etruscan Sarcophagi in the University Museum". The Philadelphia Press. Philadelphia. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 1 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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