05 Oct 2020

Etruscan Sarcophagus of the Spouses

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Wikipedia:

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Italian: Sarcofago degli Sposi) is considered one of the great masterpieces of Etruscan art. It is a late sixth-century BC Etruscan anthropoid sarcophagus from Caere, and is in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome. It is 1.14 m high by 1.9 m wide, and is made of terracotta which was once brightly painted. It depicts a married couple reclining at a banquet together in the afterlife, and was found in 19th-century excavations at the necropolis of Cerveteri (ancient Caere). The portrayal of a married couple sharing a banqueting couch is distinctly an Etruscan style; in contrast, Greek vases depicting banquet scenes reflect the custom that only men attended dinner parties.

These are the people your typical New Yorker subscribers imagine themselves to be.

Just looking at them, you regret missing the food, wine, and conversations at their weekend parties.

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gwbnyc

could it be the female’s head reflects cranial shaping, such as was practiced in egypt?



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