Etruscan Bronze Cinerary Urn with a Lid in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2007

Bronze cinerary urn with lid
Etruscan, Campanian, ca. 500 BC
Said to be from Capua

Accession # 40.11.3 a,b

Large hammered-bronze urns, often with solid-cast figures on the lid, were frequently used for cremated remains in Etruscan dominated Campania. Several examples were found at Capua, that region's major city, and they were likely produced there from the late 6th to mid-5th century BC. The statuettes added to the lid of this elaborately incised urn show a large nude diskos thrower surrounded by four Scythian archers mounted on rearing horses.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.