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