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Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
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Crater of the Ghiottoni
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Floor B
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Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima

Sarcophagus lid

Anonymous

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Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

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The object, belonging to the collection of Amilcare Ancona, an Italian collector and archaeologist (1839-1890), is among the first to be included in the Etruscan collections of the Archaeological Museum of Milan.It probably came from Tarquinia where, in the late Hellenistic period, a production of sarcophagi in both stone and clay is attested. The latter was cheaper but gave the object less artistic dignity, precisely due to the mold processing with a serial process that left less room for stylistic detail. The lid exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Milan depicts a sad and astonished young woman dressed in a high girded peplum, with the veiled head of a cloak that goes down to her shoulders; the hair is rendered through deep grooves in the clay, while the eyes have the iris indicated by a button. The woman, lying on the left side of a banquet bed, is not portrayed in her physiognomic veracity, but is depicted as a participant in her own funeral banquet, an otherworldly banquet.
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Title: Sarcophagus lid

Author: Anonymous

Date: II - I sec. a.C

Technique: Terracotta

Displayed in: Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

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