Cinerary Chest
Date200-250
MediumSandstone
DimensionsObject/Work: 150 x 362 x 160 mm
ClassificationsReligious/Ritual Equipment
Terms
Object numberC15232
DescriptionLid of a Roman funerary ash chest. A sculpted female figure reclines on the top, holding a bunch of grapes in her right hand. A familiar form in Etruscan funerary art, but unique in Britain, and rare elsewhere in the Roman world. It was found in a Roman well during excavations under Southwark Cathedral in 1977.On View
Not on viewCollections
200-250
200-300
43-409
1870
690-590 BC
45-450
