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sarcophagus Object type: sarcophagus Museum number: 1887,0402.1 Description: Painted terracotta sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, her name inscribed on the chest. She reclines upon a mattress and pillow, holding an open lidded-mirror in her left hand and raising her right hand to adjust her mantle. She wears a chiton with high girdle, a bordered mantle, and jewellery comprising a diadem, ear-rings, necklace, bracelets and finger-rings. Culture/period: Etruscan Date: 250BC-150BC (circa) Production place: Made in: Italy; Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Poggio Cantarello; Materials: terracotta Technique: painted; moulded Inscription Curator's comments: The skull and other bones (1887,0402.2) from the sarcophagus were found to belong to a woman who was probably about fifty years old at the time of her death. Bibliography: Terracotta D786 Named in inscription & portrayed: Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa Acquisition: Purchased from: Prof Wolfgang Helbig Acquisition date: 1887 Department: Greek & Roman Antiquities Registration number: 1887,0402.1 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=466847&partId=1

sarcophagus Object type: sarcophagus Museum number: 1887,0402.1 Description: Painted terracotta sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, her name inscribed on the chest. She reclines upon a mattress and pillow, holding an open lidded-mirror in her left hand and raising her right hand to adjust her mantle. She wears a chiton with high girdle, a bordered mantle, and jewellery comprising a diadem, ear-rings, necklace, bracelets and finger-rings. Culture/period: Etruscan Date: 250BC-150BC (circa) Production place: Made in: Italy; Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Poggio Cantarello; Materials: terracotta Technique: painted; moulded Inscription Curator's comments: The skull and other bones (1887,0402.2) from the sarcophagus were found to belong to a woman who was probably about fifty years old at the time of her death. Bibliography: Terracotta D786 Named in inscription & portrayed: Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa Acquisition: Purchased from: Prof Wolfgang Helbig Acquisition date: 1887 Department: Greek & Roman Antiquities Registration number: 1887,0402.1 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=466847&partId=1

helmet Object type: helmet Museum number: 1872,1213.2 Description: Copper alloy peaked helmet. Made from beaten copper alloy sheet, the helmet is approaching the Roman coolus helmet in form, with a broad neck guard with La Tène style decoration. The central repoussé palmette is flanked by lobed stems and further ornamented by symmetrical bosses scored for enamelling. The base of the headpiece is encircled with two pairs of parallel incised lines. The left side of the headpiece is torn and dented, damage on the right side is slighter. The cheekpiece attachments are very fragmentary, and the cheekpieces themselves are missing entirely, but it appears that they were held in place by expanded rivets with scored heads. Rivet holes and a circular patch of dicolouration at the peak of the headpiece suggest the original presence of a plume holder or mount, now also missing. Culture/period: Iron Age, La Tène Date: 50 - 150 (circa) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: England (?) (Europe,British Isles,England) Materials: copper alloy Dimensions: Weight: 514 grammes Length: 302 millimetres (including neck-guard) Height: 165 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres Inscriptions Inscription Type: annotation Inscription Content: II Inscription Comment: Scored behind right ear. Bibliography: R I B II.3, 2425.1, pp. 44 MacGregor 1976 No. 189 Hobbs & Jackson 2010 p. 51, fig. 39 Exhibition history Exhibited: 2016 11 Mar- 25 Sep, Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, Celts. 2015-2016 24 Sep-31 Jan, London, BM, G30, 'Celts: Art and Identity' 1970 15 Oct-22 Nov, London, Hayward Gallery, Early Celtic Art 1970 22 Aug-12 Sep, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, Early Celtic Art Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks biography Previous owner/ex-collection: Lt-Gen Augustus W H Meyrick biography Acquisition date: 1872 Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory Registration number: 1872,1213.2 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1394288

helmet Object type: helmet Museum number: 1872,1213.2 Description: Copper alloy peaked helmet. Made from beaten copper alloy sheet, the helmet is approaching the Roman coolus helmet in form, with a broad neck guard with La Tène style decoration. The central repoussé palmette is flanked by lobed stems and further ornamented by symmetrical bosses scored for enamelling. The base of the headpiece is encircled with two pairs of parallel incised lines. The left side of the headpiece is torn and dented, damage on the right side is slighter. The cheekpiece attachments are very fragmentary, and the cheekpieces themselves are missing entirely, but it appears that they were held in place by expanded rivets with scored heads. Rivet holes and a circular patch of dicolouration at the peak of the headpiece suggest the original presence of a plume holder or mount, now also missing. Culture/period: Iron Age, La Tène Date: 50 - 150 (circa) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: England (?) (Europe,British Isles,England) Materials: copper alloy Dimensions: Weight: 514 grammes Length: 302 millimetres (including neck-guard) Height: 165 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres Inscriptions Inscription Type: annotation Inscription Content: II Inscription Comment: Scored behind right ear. Bibliography: R I B II.3, 2425.1, pp. 44 MacGregor 1976 No. 189 Hobbs & Jackson 2010 p. 51, fig. 39 Exhibition history Exhibited: 2016 11 Mar- 25 Sep, Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, Celts. 2015-2016 24 Sep-31 Jan, London, BM, G30, 'Celts: Art and Identity' 1970 15 Oct-22 Nov, London, Hayward Gallery, Early Celtic Art 1970 22 Aug-12 Sep, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, Early Celtic Art Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks biography Previous owner/ex-collection: Lt-Gen Augustus W H Meyrick biography Acquisition date: 1872 Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory Registration number: 1872,1213.2 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1394288

helmet Object type: helmet Museum number: 1872,1213.2 Description: Copper alloy peaked helmet. Made from beaten copper alloy sheet, the helmet is approaching the Roman coolus helmet in form, with a broad neck guard with La Tène style decoration. The central repoussé palmette is flanked by lobed stems and further ornamented by symmetrical bosses scored for enamelling. The base of the headpiece is encircled with two pairs of parallel incised lines. The left side of the headpiece is torn and dented, damage on the right side is slighter. The cheekpiece attachments are very fragmentary, and the cheekpieces themselves are missing entirely, but it appears that they were held in place by expanded rivets with scored heads. Rivet holes and a circular patch of dicolouration at the peak of the headpiece suggest the original presence of a plume holder or mount, now also missing. Culture/period: Iron Age, La Tène Date: 50 - 150 (circa) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: England (?) (Europe,British Isles,England) Materials: copper alloy Dimensions: Weight: 514 grammes Length: 302 millimetres (including neck-guard) Height: 165 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres Inscriptions Inscription Type: annotation Inscription Content: II Inscription Comment: Scored behind right ear. Bibliography: R I B II.3, 2425.1, pp. 44 MacGregor 1976 No. 189 Hobbs & Jackson 2010 p. 51, fig. 39 Exhibition history Exhibited: 2016 11 Mar- 25 Sep, Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, Celts. 2015-2016 24 Sep-31 Jan, London, BM, G30, 'Celts: Art and Identity' 1970 15 Oct-22 Nov, London, Hayward Gallery, Early Celtic Art 1970 22 Aug-12 Sep, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, Early Celtic Art Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks biography Previous owner/ex-collection: Lt-Gen Augustus W H Meyrick biography Acquisition date: 1872 Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory Registration number: 1872,1213.2 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1394288

helmet Object type: helmet Museum number: 1872,1213.2 Description: Copper alloy peaked helmet. Made from beaten copper alloy sheet, the helmet is approaching the Roman coolus helmet in form, with a broad neck guard with La Tène style decoration. The central repoussé palmette is flanked by lobed stems and further ornamented by symmetrical bosses scored for enamelling. The base of the headpiece is encircled with two pairs of parallel incised lines. The left side of the headpiece is torn and dented, damage on the right side is slighter. The cheekpiece attachments are very fragmentary, and the cheekpieces themselves are missing entirely, but it appears that they were held in place by expanded rivets with scored heads. Rivet holes and a circular patch of dicolouration at the peak of the headpiece suggest the original presence of a plume holder or mount, now also missing. Culture/period: Iron Age, La Tène Date: 50 - 150 (circa) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: England (?) (Europe,British Isles,England) Materials: copper alloy Dimensions: Weight: 514 grammes Length: 302 millimetres (including neck-guard) Height: 165 millimetres Width: 170 millimetres Inscriptions Inscription Type: annotation Inscription Content: II Inscription Comment: Scored behind right ear. Bibliography: R I B II.3, 2425.1, pp. 44 MacGregor 1976 No. 189 Hobbs & Jackson 2010 p. 51, fig. 39 Exhibition history Exhibited: 2016 11 Mar- 25 Sep, Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, Celts. 2015-2016 24 Sep-31 Jan, London, BM, G30, 'Celts: Art and Identity' 1970 15 Oct-22 Nov, London, Hayward Gallery, Early Celtic Art 1970 22 Aug-12 Sep, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, Early Celtic Art Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks biography Previous owner/ex-collection: Lt-Gen Augustus W H Meyrick biography Acquisition date: 1872 Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory Registration number: 1872,1213.2 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1394288

Object type: lekythos Museum number: 1893,0917.1 Description Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Offerings at tomb. The stele is a slender shaft reaching to the upper border, surmounted by a necking and a diminutive pediment, and resting on one tall plinth on which is laid a taenia drawn in brown outline, with a hatched pattern. On the left is a youth in a chlamys with petasos at his back, holding a spear upright in his right. On the right is a youth in an himation, holding in front of him a purse (?) hanging from a string in his right hand. On left of the upper part of the stele is a soul, eidolon (εΐδωλον), represented as a minute winged figure drawn in sketchy brown silhouette; it flies towards the stele, pointing to it with left arm extended and right hand raised to its head with a gesture of sorrow. Brown outline; hair in black stippling on brown; chlamys vermilion; himation purple; both have folds in black; in the purple the sketch-marks show; the taeniae round the stele are alternately black and vermilion. Eye in profile. Above, maeander broken by dotted cross squares; on the shoulder, three palmettes (alternate petals red) and egg pattern, all black on white. Producer name: Attributed to: The Achilles Painter biography Culture/period: Attic Date: 460BC-430BC (circa) Production place: Made in: Attica; (Europe,Greece,Attica (Greece)) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Eretria; (Europe,Greece,Central Greece and Euboea,Euboea (island),Eretria) Materials: pottery Ware White ground Dimensions: Height: 33.02 centimetres Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases White Athenian Vases, pl. 5. Bibliography: Vase D54 bibliographic details Subjects: sacrifice; tomb/mausoleum Acquisition name: Purchased from: E Triantophyllos Acquisition date: 1893 Department: Greek & Roman Antiquities Registration number: 1893,0917.1 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=461123

Object type: lekythos Museum number: 1893,0917.1 Description Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Offerings at tomb. The stele is a slender shaft reaching to the upper border, surmounted by a necking and a diminutive pediment, and resting on one tall plinth on which is laid a taenia drawn in brown outline, with a hatched pattern. On the left is a youth in a chlamys with petasos at his back, holding a spear upright in his right. On the right is a youth in an himation, holding in front of him a purse (?) hanging from a string in his right hand. On left of the upper part of the stele is a soul, eidolon (εΐδωλον), represented as a minute winged figure drawn in sketchy brown silhouette; it flies towards the stele, pointing to it with left arm extended and right hand raised to its head with a gesture of sorrow. Brown outline; hair in black stippling on brown; chlamys vermilion; himation purple; both have folds in black; in the purple the sketch-marks show; the taeniae round the stele are alternately black and vermilion. Eye in profile. Above, maeander broken by dotted cross squares; on the shoulder, three palmettes (alternate petals red) and egg pattern, all black on white. Producer name: Attributed to: The Achilles Painter biography Culture/period: Attic Date: 460BC-430BC (circa) Production place: Made in: Attica; (Europe,Greece,Attica (Greece)) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Eretria; (Europe,Greece,Central Greece and Euboea,Euboea (island),Eretria) Materials: pottery Ware White ground Dimensions: Height: 33.02 centimetres Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases White Athenian Vases, pl. 5. Bibliography: Vase D54 bibliographic details Subjects: sacrifice; tomb/mausoleum Acquisition name: Purchased from: E Triantophyllos Acquisition date: 1893 Department: Greek & Roman Antiquities Registration number: 1893,0917.1 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=461123

Object type: lekythos Museum number: 1893,0917.1 Description Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Offerings at tomb. The stele is a slender shaft reaching to the upper border, surmounted by a necking and a diminutive pediment, and resting on one tall plinth on which is laid a taenia drawn in brown outline, with a hatched pattern. On the left is a youth in a chlamys with petasos at his back, holding a spear upright in his right. On the right is a youth in an himation, holding in front of him a purse (?) hanging from a string in his right hand. On left of the upper part of the stele is a soul, eidolon (εΐδωλον), represented as a minute winged figure drawn in sketchy brown silhouette; it flies towards the stele, pointing to it with left arm extended and right hand raised to its head with a gesture of sorrow. Brown outline; hair in black stippling on brown; chlamys vermilion; himation purple; both have folds in black; in the purple the sketch-marks show; the taeniae round the stele are alternately black and vermilion. Eye in profile. Above, maeander broken by dotted cross squares; on the shoulder, three palmettes (alternate petals red) and egg pattern, all black on white. Producer name: Attributed to: The Achilles Painter biography Culture/period: Attic Date: 460BC-430BC (circa) Production place: Made in: Attica; (Europe,Greece,Attica (Greece)) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Eretria; (Europe,Greece,Central Greece and Euboea,Euboea (island),Eretria) Materials: pottery Ware White ground Dimensions: Height: 33.02 centimetres Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases White Athenian Vases, pl. 5. Bibliography: Vase D54 bibliographic details Subjects: sacrifice; tomb/mausoleum Acquisition name: Purchased from: E Triantophyllos Acquisition date: 1893 Department: Greek & Roman Antiquities Registration number: 1893,0917.1 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=461123

Object type: lekythos Museum number: 1893,0917.1 Description Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Offerings at tomb. The stele is a slender shaft reaching to the upper border, surmounted by a necking and a diminutive pediment, and resting on one tall plinth on which is laid a taenia drawn in brown outline, with a hatched pattern. On the left is a youth in a chlamys with petasos at his back, holding a spear upright in his right. On the right is a youth in an himation, holding in front of him a purse (?) hanging from a string in his right hand. On left of the upper part of the stele is a soul, eidolon (εΐδωλον), represented as a minute winged figure drawn in sketchy brown silhouette; it flies towards the stele, pointing to it with left arm extended and right hand raised to its head with a gesture of sorrow. Brown outline; hair in black stippling on brown; chlamys vermilion; himation purple; both have folds in black; in the purple the sketch-marks show; the taeniae round the stele are alternately black and vermilion. Eye in profile. Above, maeander broken by dotted cross squares; on the shoulder, three palmettes (alternate petals red) and egg pattern, all black on white. Producer name: Attributed to: The Achilles Painter biography Culture/period: Attic Date: 460BC-430BC (circa) Production place: Made in: Attica; (Europe,Greece,Attica (Greece)) Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Eretria; (Europe,Greece,Central Greece and Euboea,Euboea (island),Eretria) Materials: pottery Ware White ground Dimensions: Height: 33.02 centimetres Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases White Athenian Vases, pl. 5. Bibliography: Vase D54 bibliographic details Subjects: sacrifice; tomb/mausoleum Acquisition name: Purchased from: E Triantophyllos Acquisition date: 1893 Department: Greek & Roman Antiquities Registration number: 1893,0917.1 Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=461123