Category:Etruscan funerary urn with furies and torches

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The entrance to the underworld is indicated by two arched doors between which two Furies stand with torches. They threaten a woman with her child saying farewell to a priest. To the right, Hades is stepping out of the gate, next to him sits Charun. At the top is a wolf-headed demon. Chiusi (?), clay, 150-100 BC