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Relief from a Funerary Cippus
(Roman Empire )
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 wall-paintings of dancers found in such celebrated Etruscan tombs as the "Tomb of the Leopards" in Tarquinia and were influenced by contemporary Greek vase-paintings.
Provenance
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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.
Geographies
Italy, Chiusi (Place of Origin)
Measurements
16 9/16 x 13 3/16 x 1 7/8 in. (42 x 33.5 x 4.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
23.13