Cinerary urn, Museo di Antichita, Turin, Italy
Cinerary urn, 1 of a pair, alabaster, 260-220 BC, thought to be that of the grandson 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 triton holding an oar and grasping 2 men with its tails. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13937706
Media ID
45477154
Size
8268px x 5809px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
