Urn with banqueteer and Vanth.

ETRUSCAN Anonymous: This cinerary urn depicts a banquet scene- banquet scenes in Etruscan art typically featured a reliclining male and a female companion or wife seated at the edge of the banquet couch. The female companion in this scene is replaced by the female death demon Vanth. Vanth was a frequent symbol among Etruscan depictions of demonology and death. The female demon was frequently featured on funerary containers either escorting or carrying the deceased to the underworld. Here she looks sternly at the deceased and holds a scroll that most likely contains an account of the life of the deceased.