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| Keywords: Etruscan - Relief from a Funerary Cippus - Walters 2313.jpg On this relief from a funerary cippus monument a man holding a lyre stands between two dancing women Such pyramidal monuments are typical of the region around Chiusi and depict the dances that took place during the ritual funerary banquet These reliefs evoke the elaborate wall-paintings of dancers found in such celebrated Etruscan tombs as the Tomb of the Leopards in Tarquinia and were influenced by contemporary Greek vase-paintings early 5th century BC limestone cm 42 33 5 4 8 accession number 23 13 12475 Tyskiewicz Collection Paris 1898 Joseph Brummer New York 1923 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1923 place of origin Chiusi Italy Walters Art Museum license Etruscan art in the Walters Art Museum Etruscan reliefs Etruscan dance Dancing women in art Funerary art Reliefs of dancers Etruscan Reliefs in Maryland | ||||
