Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd quarter 3rd c. BCE (head of reclining figure on lid is a 19th c. restoration)
Former Sozzi collection
Possibly from Colle del Vescovo, Chiusi (see on Pleiades)
The lid bears an Etruscan inscription (Meiser, ET Cl 1.164):
laris: sentinate: larcna(l): (Laris Sentinate, son of Larcnei)
In the collection of, and photographed on display in the:
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Chiusi
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Found at San Giuliano (see on Pleiades), Chiusa Cima necropolis, Cima tumulus, Tomb 7 (tomb dated to 2nd half 6th c. BCE)
In the collection of and photographed on display in the Museo Archeologico delle Necropoli Rupestri, Barbarano Romano (VT), Italy
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Left: Protocorinthian aryballos
Right: impasto chalice with inscription
3rd quarter 7th c. BCE, middle Orientalizing period
From Pontecagnano (see on Pleiades), Tomb 3509
Tomb 3509 the burial of an infant, is located near the hypothetical tumulus covering the "princely" burials 926-928, and itself contained rich grave goods beyond those displayed here.
The Etruscan graffito inscription (Rivista di Epigrafia Etrusca 2002, n. 84) on the chalice reads:
mi mulu venelasi velχaesi rasuniesi
"I (am) the gift/offering of Venel(i)a (and) Velchae Rasunies"
The family name of the husband Velchae, Rasunies, may be etymologically related to the Etruscan demonym rasna.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Pontecagnano, Campania, Italy
Inv. 67495 (chalice)
Inv. 67518 (aryballos)
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Hellenistic, Roman Mid-Republican period, ca. 3rd c. BCE
Found at Chiusi (see Clusium on Pleiades), Poggio Renzi necropolis, Tomba dela Pellegrina (investigated in 1928, already looted)
The Etruscan inscription
larth:sentinates:caesa
In the collection of, and photographed on display in the:
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Chiusi
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On the lid, the deceased represented reclining seminude on two cushions, wearing a crown and garland, a ring on his left hand, and holding a patera in his right hand.
Along the cornice of the urn, a retrograde Etruscan inscription naming the deceased:
vel: remzna crespe (Rix, Etruskische Texte, Cl 1.2318)
On the urn, Orestes and Pylades, wearing capes and Phrygian caps, armed with swords and shields, killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, flanking a central winged Vanth holding a torch.
Chiusi
Last quarter of the 3rd c. BCE
Alabaster
From Chiusi (Etruscan Clevsin, Etruscan or Umbrian Camars, Latin Clusium; more at Pleiades; PECS; RFO; Livius dot org; Attalus dot org (Hellenistic history); Wikipedia)
On display in the exhibit "Gli Etruschi a Palermo" (The Etruscans in Palermo), located in the Real Albergo dei Poveri.
Collection of the Museo Archaeologico Regionale 'Antonino Salinas', Palermo, Sicily, Inv. 8468.
Part of the former Museo Casuccini, which was collected by Count Pietro Bonci Casuccini and his son Francesco in the vicinity of Chiusi in Tuscany between 1826 and 1857, and acquired by the Royal Museum of Palermo in 1865.
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