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102 - Etruscan cinerary urn depicting Eteocles and Polyneices. Chiusi, 2nd century B.C. H 28.4 cm, W 37.6 cm, D 25.4 cm. Mold-formed, light brown terracotta with a white engobe and polychrome painting in brown, reddish brown, yellow, blue, and green. Depicted is the final duel from the myth of the Seven Against Thebes. In this battle, the sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, fight for the city of Thebes and will kill one another. Flanking them are two female demons of death holding torches. An Etruscan inscription appears on the upper rim. Includes copies of the catalogs and the original French export license! Minor chips at the corners; otherwise intact and with superbly preserved colors. Provenance: 2012, Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg im Breisgau; 2011, Christie’s London; from a 19th-century French private collection. Published in: *Kunst der Antike*—Galerie Günter Puhze Catalog 26 (2012) p. 34, no. 64, with ill.; Christie’s London Antiquities, October 6, 2011, Lot 109. See F. S. Knauß and J. Gebauer (eds.), The Etruscans from Villanova to Rome. Exhibition, Munich (2015), p. 265, figs. 6.14–15.
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Etruscan cinerary urn depicting Eteocles and Polyneices. Chiusi, 2nd century B.C. H 28.4 cm, W 37.6 cm, D 25.4 cm. Mold-formed, light brown terracotta with a white engobe and polychrome painting in brown, reddish brown, yellow, blue, and green. Depicted is the final duel from the myth of the Seven Against Thebes. In this battle, the sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, fight for the city of Thebes and will kill one another. Flanking them are two female demons of death holding torches. An Etruscan inscription appears on the upper rim. Includes copies of the catalogs and the original French export license! Minor chips at the corners; otherwise intact and with superbly preserved colors. Provenance: 2012, Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg im Breisgau; 2011, Christie’s London; from a 19th-century French private collection. Published in: *Kunst der Antike*—Galerie Günter Puhze Catalog 26 (2012) p. 34, no. 64, with ill.; Christie’s London Antiquities, October 6, 2011, Lot 109. See F. S. Knauß and J. Gebauer (eds.), The Etruscans from Villanova to Rome. Exhibition, Munich (2015), p. 265, figs. 6.14–15.
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