Etruscan ash urn with a hero fighting with ploughshare

Classification

funerary relief ; cinerary urn

Culture

Etruscan

Dimensions

21.2 × 35.5 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)

Findspot

Città della Pieve

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Gyula, Erkel Ferenc Museum ; Haan, Antal (1827–1888)

Inventory

50.963.1-2

ID

Hyp-780

References

Csornay 2000, fig. 29; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 133; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 151; Pandolfini, in StEtr 52 (1984), 279–820, pls 43, 44; Szilágyi, J. Gy., in BullMusHong 120–121 (2015–2016), 77, fig. 12

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