tomb-painting
- Museum number
- 1889,0410.1-5
- Description
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Five baked clay panels bearing painted representations of sphinxes and groups of three figures. Above is a guilloche pattern and below are crimson and cream stripes.
- Production date
- 560BC-550BC
- Dimensions
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Width: 56 - 57 centimetres
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Height: 98 - 102 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Montelius, Oscar, La Civilisation primitive en Italie depuis l'introduction des métaux, Stockholm : Imprimerie Royale, 1895-1910. pl. 342. See for sketch of tomb.
Roncalli, Francesco. Le Lastre dipinte da Ceveteri. Firenze: Sansoni, c1965. p. 280, pl. 12-15. See for references.
Pallotino, Massimo. Etruscan Painting. Translated by M.E. Stanley and Stuart Gilbert. Geneva: Skira, 1952. p. 25-28.
Reich, John. Italy before Rome. Oxford: Elsevier-Phaidon, 1979. pls. on pages 84-85 (printed the wrong way round left to right).
Sprenger, Maja and Gilda Bartoloni. The Etruscans : their history, art, and architecture. Translated from the German and Italian by Robert Erich Wolf. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1983. pl. 74. See for references.
- Location
- On display (G71)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
21 Nov 2019- 8 Mar 2020, London, BM, SEG, TROY
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1889,0410.1-5
