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Photo: Susan Cole
Relief from an Urn: Eteokles and Polyneikes in Combat
Photo: Susan Cole

Relief from an Urn: Eteokles and Polyneikes in Combat

Date2nd century B.C.
Object number47.21
Provenance[Heeramaneck Galleries, New York]; purchased by Seattle Art Museum, January 2, 1947
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole
Exhibition HistorySanta Barbara, California, The Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, Etruscan Art from West Coast Collections, 1967Published ReferencesDel Chiaro, M., Etruscan Art from West Coast Collections, Santa Barbara, CA: The Art Gallery, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1967, cat. no. 21, p. 36, illus. (unnumbered page) Rix, Helmut, Etruskische Texte. Editio minor, Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1991, Cl 1.2565
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions11 x 16 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (28 x 41.9 x 5.7 cm)
MediumTerracotta
Head
Etruscan
ca. 600 B.C.
Object number: 63.155
Frieze Fragment:  Orphic Ceremony
Etruscan
1st century B.C.
Object number: 67.39
Relief fragment; female head
Indian
8th-9th Century
Object number: 70.31
Head of Helmeted Man (fragment)
Etruscan
Object number: SC77.81
Male figure
Etruscan
475-450 B.C.
Object number: 62.160
Herakles carrying lion skin
Etruscan
5th century B.C.
Object number: 68.202
Griffin Head from a Pottery Cauldron
Etruscan
6th-7th century B.C.
Object number: 65.42
Lid from a Krater, wine mixing bowl
Etruscan
ca. 530 B.C.
Object number: 65.117
Female divinity statuette
Greek
6th century B.C.
Object number: 53.50
Head of a Votive Deity
Greek
Object number: SC77.77
Greek
6th century B.C.
Object number: 54.44
Votive Bull
Roman
2nd century A.D.
Object number: SC83.11