A lid of an sarcophagus, Etruscan funerary urn of the spouses or married couple, 1st century BCE. Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, photo by Sailco https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_guarnacci,_urna_degli_sposi,_I_sec._ac._02.JPG
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The lid depicts an elderly married couple with unusually specific features. The man is larger than the woman and wears a fillet on his head. He gazes into the distance. His wife is lying next him in an unnaturally twisted position so that she can look at her husband. Her expression seems, at the same time, sad and grim. Both heads have lined visages and sunken cheeks to underscore the couple’s advanced age, no doubt a mark of pride, as in Roman portraits of the first century BCE.
This Volterran urn was found in 1743 in the burial chamber of another tomb in the Uliveto necropolis. It stood apart from all the rest. The sculptor cast it in terracotta instead of carving it in stone.
Source: Settis S et alt., The Land of The Etruscans.
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