Relief from a Funerary Cippus

early 5th century BCE (Late Archaic)

33.5 cm 42 cm 4.8 cm

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On this relief from a funerary cippus (monument), a man holding a lyre stands between two dancing women. Such pyramidal monuments are typical of the region around Chiusi and depict the dances that took place during the ritual funerary banquet. These reliefs evoke the elaborate...

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Tyszkiewicz Collection, Paris, 1898, no. 310 [pl. 33] [as found at Chianciano]; Alphonse Kann, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, 1923, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P779]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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