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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2422
Procedència desconeguda
Colonisations

cinerary urn

MAC BCN-011522

Object type
cremation urn
Production date
-300 / -100
Fabric
Chiusi workshop
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Colonisations
Discovery location
Procedència desconeguda
Materials
terracotta
Township
Chiusi (Europa, Itàlia)
Technique
modelling, baking
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
-
Description
Etruscan urn with a scene in relief. This is the fight between the two brothers Eteocles and Polynices, sons of Oedipus, king of Thebes, while two female funerary demons watch the fight. At the top the remains of an inscription in Etruscan language. The cover represents a female figure lying on a kline.

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