About the Artwork
Cinerary Urn with Lid
mid or late 2nd century BCE
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Etruscan
Unknown
Tufa
31 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (80.6 x 59.7 cm) D. Caccioli 2009: Urn: 47.2 x 58.2 x 25.1 cm, Lid: 21 x 62.9 x 24.5 cm (h x l x w)
Stone and Stonecarving
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
26.172
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Provenance
Venice, Dr. Benno Geiger (dealer)
from whom purcchased by the DIA in 1926.
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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. 2, pp. 9, 16-7, ill. pl. 4.
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Etruscan, Cinerary Urn with Lid, mid or late 2nd century BCE, Tufa. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.172.
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