Etruscan ash urn with a hero fighting with ploughshare

Classification

funerary relief ; cinerary urn

Culture

Etruscan

Dimensions

21.9 x 33.9 cm

Date

late 2nd century B.C

Period

Etruscan Hellenistic Period (3th–1st centuries)

Material

clay

Iconography

male figure ; mantle ; shield ; sword ; helmet ; armour ; plough

Inscription

Etruscan script

Production place

Clusium (Chiusi)

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Fleissig, József (1897–1944)

Inventory

50.115

ID

Hyp-1102

References

Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 133; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 151; Szilágyi, J. Gy. 1981, 24, no. 18; Pandolfini, in StEtr 52 (1984), no. 5, pls. 43, 5

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