The Sarcophagus of the Spouses in the Villa Giulia is perhaps the best-known of Etruscan funerary monuments. Found in 1881 in the Banditaccia necropolis in Cerveteri, it was reconstructed from 400 fragments. Composed of four pieces, its scale is noteworthy (1,14 x 1,9m). It would originally have been painted (cf: the contemporary Sarcophagus of the Spouses in the Louvre) with inlaid eyes now lost. The elements in the hands of both figures are missing but she may have held a p