About the Artwork
Lid for Ash Urn
late 3rd or early 2nd century BCE
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Etruscan
Unknown
Alabaster
Overall: 18 11/16 × 28 1/8 × 13 3/16 inches (47.5 × 71.5 × 33.5 cm)
Sculpture
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Founders Society Purchase
23.139.B
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Provenance
(A. Satori, Vienna, Austria)
1923-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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De Grummond, E. "83. Cinerary Urn with Winged Deities." In The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Rituals, Modern Muse, Elaine K. Gazda, ed. Ann Arbor, 2000, pp. 217-218.
De Puma, R.D. Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave. Rome, 2009, pp. 141-142, no. 194.
Caccioli, D. A. "The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 14. Leiden/Boston, 2009, pp. 9, 13-15, no. 1 pl. 1-3 (ill.).
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Etruscan, Lid for Ash Urn, late 3rd or early 2nd century BCE, alabaster. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 23.139.B.
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