Dating of Item: 400BC-200BC

Findspot: Tuscany, Italy

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Description: A number of nearly complete and bronze fragments formerly referred to as the Lazio Toscana U-shaped Cornua. Believed to be from the Tomba dei Vipinana, discovered in 1839 by Carlo Campanari in Tuscania. In this, 27 stone sarcophagi, male and female, dated between the end of the 4th and the middle of the 2nd century were found, although there were traces of itsuse up to the 1st-2nd century CE. The grave goods were completely dismembered and all the objects found were sold to European collectors. Only a few inventories document the nature of the objects deposited, including two incomplete bronze horns and numerous fragments in bronze sheet and mouthpieces in cast bronze, relating to similar instruments.

The ‘complete’ instruments are around 640 mm long

These were purchased from Campanari in 1839

Museum Ref: British Museum, Greek & Roman, 1839,1109.46.c

Citations: Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum, Roman & Etruscan, (2734), Holmes 2009

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