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ETRUSCAN TUFF STONE FUNERARY URN. Lid decorated with the deceased lady, diadem and veil on her head, resting with one arm on a cushion and holding leaf shaped fan in her right hand, pomegranate in left hand Obverse of urn carved in high relief with a Greek mythological scene of Hippodameia with the wheel and king Pelops killing charioteer Myrtilos on altar of temple.
70 x 60 x 18 cm. Ex coll. J. van Rijn, Maastricht, Netherlands; formerly coll. F. Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
From Volterra, 2nd cent BC
cf. F.l. Bastet, H. Brunsting, Corpus Signorum Classicorum, Leiden, 1982, p. 154, no. 272;
L.B. van der Meer, Etruscan Urns from Volterra, Studies on Mythological
Representations I-IL, Meppel, 1978, pp. 56, 94-
96 and 108, plates XIX, XXVIII.2 P.O.R.
70 x 60 x 18 cm. Ex coll. J. van Rijn, Maastricht, Netherlands; formerly coll. F. Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
From Volterra, 2nd cent BC
cf. F.l. Bastet, H. Brunsting, Corpus Signorum Classicorum, Leiden, 1982, p. 154, no. 272;
L.B. van der Meer, Etruscan Urns from Volterra, Studies on Mythological
Representations I-IL, Meppel, 1978, pp. 56, 94-
96 and 108, plates XIX, XXVIII.2 P.O.R.
ETRUSCAN TUFF STONE FUNERARY URN.
ETRUSCAN TUFF STONE FUNERARY URN.
2nd century BC
2nd century BC
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