Fiumicino Airport hosted the opening of an exhibition of three evocative Etruscan sculptures from the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia's permanent collection. Every day, hundreds of passengers traveling through Terminal 1's Arrivals area can admire them. Two travertine funerary urns from Perugia and a sarcophagus lid from Tuscany. They stand out because of the idealized images of Laris Afle, Arnth Acsi, and Larth Cales, individuals who lived in the second century BC and were most likely aristocrats. All three figures are represented lying down while taking part in a symposium: a reception where people drank, conversed, and listened to music, which was a watershed point in Etruscan social life. Decorated with scenes from myth, the urn crates foster connections between the actual world and fantasy, the past and future, and expectations and experiences.
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