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Roman sculpture, Musee Lapidaire, Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France

Funerary urn for ashes, Roman, with relief of mythological scene featuring a wild boar hunt in Calydon, late 2nd century - early 1st century BC, and on the lid (not original), a reclining woman wearing jewellery, 80-50 BC, alabaster, from Chiusi, in the Musee Lapidaire, or Lapidary Museum, in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France. The museum houses archaeological artefacts from the Collection Archeologique de la Fondation Calvet, from the Musee Calvet. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Funerary urn for ashes, Roman, with relief of mythological scene featuring a wild boar hunt in Calydon, late 2nd century - early 1st century BC, and on the lid (not original), a reclining woman wearing jewellery, 80-50 BC, alabaster, from Chiusi, in the Musee Lapidaire, or Lapidary Museum, in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France. The museum houses archaeological artefacts from the Collection Archeologique de la Fondation Calvet, from the Musee Calvet. Picture by Manuel Cohen