Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna: Etruscan funerary stele decorated on four registers.This monumental stele is decorated in bas-relief on both sides.The theme of the deceased's passage from life to death is described through two different scenes, in which a winged demon always appears, who, on one side, "kidnaps" the deceased, leading him by the hand to the afterlife, and on the other, guides him towards the afterlife on a chariot pulled by winged horses.This second depiction is part of one of the three bands into which one of the sides of the stele is divided; in the other two bands there is, at the bottom, a representation of funeral games, with an armed Etruscan knight facing a naked warrior with sword and shield; at the top, the fight between a snake and a hippocampus, fantastic animals that allude to the afterlife.Provenance: Bologna, Certosa necropolis, tomb 89.Inventory number: Ducati 169
