Pair of Marble Funerary Urns
CultureRoman
Date2nd - 3rd century A.D.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)
Base: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Base: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Object number77.397
Not on view
DescriptionCurved fluting down sides; covers as eagles with young. Two double handles on each. One of the pair has been deaccessioned in 1978. 
In the Manner of the Lysippides Painter
ca. 530-520 B.C.E.