Sarcophagus lid. Etruria, 3rd century BC. In terracotta. The head is not original. Measures: 43 x 222 x 50 cm. The Etruscan sarcophagus owes its appearance in the sepulchral chambers of the 7th century BC to an Oriental custom. The version with human figures carved on the lid, like the one shown here, is typically Etruscan. In inland southern Etruria, in the 3rd century, alongside the production of sarcophagi in lithic material, a characteristic production of terracotta sarcophagi took root, mainly in Tuscania. On this lid in the form of a "kline" is represented a young man lying on one side, in the usual pose at banquets, with the head (not the original) modeled in an exempt manner and also protruding feet, worked in relief. The "portraits" of the sarcophagi usually followed fixed typologies, which sought to satisfy the most recurrent casuistry. The effigies usually maintain rather impersonal features that conform to the Late Classical cult models. This type of funerary urn is adapted to the Etruscan traditions associated with their cult of the dead: the urn is shaped like a vase and has a lid, on which there is a sculpture of the deceased in a banqueting position, lying on a triclinium, alive, smiling, with the left elbow resting on wine skins, legs tucked in. Dimensions 43 x 222 x 50 cm. Condition Report It presents breaks, restorations and lack of terracotta. The head is not the original one.