Cinerary Urn with Figure, between late 3rd and early 2nd century BCE

  • Etruscan

Alabaster

  • Overall: 10 1/2 × 8 × 13 5/8 inches (26.7 × 20.3 × 34.6 cm) Overall (urn): 10 3/4 × 8 3/8 × 13 3/8 inches (27.3 × 21.2 × 34 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Lydia Winston Malbin

74.69.A

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

The name of the deceased female is inscribed in Etruscan on the edge of the lid: LARTHI PETRUI CAPIESA.

Detroit, Albert Kahn

New York, Lydia Kahn Winston Malbin (his daughter)

who gave it to the DIA in 1974.

DIA BULLETIN, vol 54, no 2, 1975, p 90, (ill). "La Chronique des Arts: Acquisitions des Musées," 1975, p. 28, no. 105. De Puma, R.D., Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2009, pp. 141-2, no. 195. Caccioli, D. A., The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 14, Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2009, cat. no. 3, pp. 9, 18-20, ill. pl. 5-6.

Etruscan, Cinerary Urn with Figure, between late 3rd and early 2nd century BCE, alabaster. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lydia Winston Malbin, 74.69.A.