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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 bc |
| Early Date: | -299 |
| Late Date: | -200 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Tuff Tufa |
| Technique: | Carved Painted |
| Iconography: | Sea Serpent Man Mirror? |
| Height: | 57.5cm |
| Length: | 192cm |
| Depth: | 66cm |
| 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 | |
| [Book] Catalano, V. 1982. Da Musarna a San Francisco. Le vicende dei sarcophagi degli Aletnas, dei Rufii, dei Cravatura e delle gens Ursetia. : Page/Fig./Plate: 58-9 | 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 | |
| [Article] Furtwangler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905). : Page/Fig./Plate: 255 | 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 |
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