Harvard Art Museums > 1942.210.B: Funerary Urn Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Funerary Urn , 1942.210.B,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 10, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/141950. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1942.210.B Title Funerary Urn Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 2nd century BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Etruria Period Hellenistic period Culture Etruscan Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/141950 Physical Descriptions Medium Tufa Dimensions H. 43 x W. 57 x D. 27 cm (16 15/16 x 22 7/16 x 10 5/8 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Accession Year 1942 Object Number 1942.210.B Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990115 Etruscan Funerary Urn and Lid The urn and lid is worn, encrusted and chipped. The woman lies on her left elbow and holds a dish (phiale) in her right hand. She appears to wear a wreath around her neck. Her proportions are almost obese, the work poor and crude with frequent incision. The urn itself is a deep, rectangular box on two short legs. The interior is roughly hewn out. The major late Etruscan or Italic sites have yielded many such funerary ensembles. Those from around Volterra are distinguished by the interesting and imaginative carving of the front of the funerary box (Cristofani, 1977, pp. 32-45). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 127, no. 115 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
