Head from a Terracotta Sarcophagus in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Head from a Terracotta Sarcophagus
Corneto (Tarquinia)
3rd century BC

# MS 1817

This fragmentary head of a youth is all that remains of a terracotta sarcophagus and its lid. Originally, the lid showed him as if sleeping, with his right arm behind his head in a swathe of bedcovers. The open mouth and deep-set eyes are typical of the Hellenistic style in Etruria.

Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.