Cinerary urn, Museo di Antichita, Turin, Italy
Cinerary urn from Chiusi, Etruscan, terracotta, 2nd century BC, with reclining sculpture of deceased and on the chest, a polychrome relief of a battle scene reminiscent of large Greco-Hellenistic friezes, in the Museo di Antichita, created 1940, housing collections of Greek and Roman antiquities and Turin and Piedmont history, from the House of Savoy, in the Palazzo Reale in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. The hero fights with a plough, and has been identified with various figures in Greek and Etruscan mythology, mainly Echetlus, who fought the Persians in Marathon. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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Antichia Antichità Antiquities Archeologico Chiusi Chiusine Cinerary Deceased Etruscan Funerary Musei Piedmont Plough Plow Polychrome Reale Reali Reclining Terracotta Torino
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