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    • Cinerary urn, late 4th or early 3rd century b.c.
    Etruscan
    Alabaster

    H. 17 in. (43.79 cm)
    Purchase, 1896 (96.9.225a,b)

    The most distinctive burial form developed by the Etruscans, and one that passed from them to the Greek and Roman world, was the convention of placing a reclining effigy of the deceased upon the lid of a sarcophagus or urn. On this typical example from Volterra, an ample Etruscan lady, holding her fan, reclines upon the lid. The front of the urn is decorated with a scene in high relief of Amazons fighting Greeks.

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  • Cinerary urn, late 4th or early 3rd century b.c.
    Etruscan
    Alabaster

    H. 17 in. (43.79 cm)
    Purchase, 1896 (96.9.225a,b)