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pottery urns

Cinerary urn at the Vatican Museums

 

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On the cover depicts a married couple in the act of lying on a kline feast, carved in the round. The case is represented in bas-relief of the killing Oenomaus by Pelops. Oenomaus, Lord of Pisa nell’Elide, used to challenge the suitors of his daughter Hippodamia in a fatal stroke to wagons, from Pisa to the Isthmus of Corinth, during which it reached them and killed them pierce with his lance. Only then Pelops managed to win it, using the horses received a gift from Poseidon, or, in another version, corrupting Myrtilus, the charioteer of Oenomaus that, by deception, sabotage a wagon wheel of his sovereign. In the crowd, made from a composition extremely animated and articulated on different levels, actively involved a female demon with wings, shown at top center. The urn has been attributed to the “Master of Oenomaus‘, a conventional scope mainly due Volterra.The famous monument was discovered in 1834 as part of the research undertaken by the brothers Campanari. Was depicted as the mythic hunter boy lying on the bed, mortally wounded. The pathetic scene is rendered with care, whether it would provide some links with the extreme events of the deceased, whether it was a favorite among the many themes of greek myth that the fourth century onwards Etruscan populate the vision of the afterlife.

Often referred to incorrectly as cineraria, is actually signed as an object in its entirety, free of cavities adapted to house the ashes. Inside intersecting checkerboard of the walls with clay structural function. The holes that are observed on the surface for the uniform aeration of clay during drying and firing. It is with good evidence of a crown that was placed over the casket of cineraria.The frieze is part of the decoration of the time of Julius III (1550-55), played by Daniele da Volterra and students. E ‘exposed in this small room, the core of the collection archaeological collection in the second half of the nineteenth century, from Bonifacio Falcioni Viterbo and purchased for the Vatican Museums by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) in May 1898. The contents of the windows is a typical example of a private collection of nineteenth century, where they were collected, indiscriminately and without any particular logical criteria, including heterogeneous archaeological finds: the oldest pots of dough protovillanovian age and early Iron Age, along with Buccheri, Attic and Etruscan painted pottery, bronze artifacts (vases, figurines, etc..), and especially gold votive material, both ancient and modern.

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