Sarcophagus of the Spouses

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The Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Italian: Sarcofago degli Sposi) is a tomb effigy considered one of the masterpieces of Etruscan art. The Etruscans lived in Italy between two main rivers, the Arno and the Tiber, and were in contact with the Ancient Greeks through trade, mainly during the Orientalizing and Archaic periods. The Etruscans were well known for their terracotta sculptures and funerary art, predominantly sarcophagi and urns. This sarcophagus is a late sixth-century BCE Etruscan anthropoid sarcophagus found at the Banditaccia necropolis in Caere, and is now in the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia, Rome. It is not to be confused with a similar sarcophagus, also given the same name, in the Louvre. This was very possibly made by the same workshop. There are other examples of reclining couples as Etruscan sarcophagus lids; both the Villa Giulia museum and the Louvre have other examples, smaller and less famous.

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