Sarcophagus - MS3488A | Collections

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:

	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. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 54, fig. 35; pp. 260-262, no. 293	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
	[Catalogue, Exhibition] White, Donald, et al. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the 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. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 58-9, no. 12 and passim	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
	[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. 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] 1900. Rare Etruscan Sarcophagi in the University Museum , in Philadelphia Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 1	View Objects related to this Actual Citation