Cinerary urn, Museo di Antichita, Turin, Italy
Cinerary urn, alabaster, 240-210 BC, of a son of the founder of the hypogeum, with a reclining sculpture of the deceased as a banqueter holding a libation bowl or patera, 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. On the chest is a relief of a winged female demon leading a horseman, representing the journey to the afterlife. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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