ETRUSCAN TUFF STONE FUNERARY URN
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
Ex coll. J. van Rijn, Maastricht, Netherlands; formerly coll. F. Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1950s (acc. to Mr. Philips)
Dim. 70 x 60 x 18 cm.
From Volterra, 2nd cent BC
Cf. F.I. 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-II, Meppel 1978, pp. 56, 94-96, 108, pls. nXIX, XXVIII.2
Note: The Greek peninsula Peleponessos derived its name from king Pelops.
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