Object Description

Villanovan Hut Urn

Villanovan hut urn, around 9th century B.C. 

Identification Date

2010

Identification Location

Fordham University Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in New York. 

Artefact History

Before 1996

In the Evangelisti archive, the urn is depicted in one regular-print images, unclean, but intact, on a small round table which is covered by a white sheet decorated by a flower pattern. 

18 Dec 1996

The urn appears for sale at Christie’s, New York, as lot 164. It was estimated at $10,000 to 15,000 and was sold for $6,900. It was probably acquired by the collector William D. Walsh.

Dec 2003

The Italian looter Giuseppe Evangelisti, was raided by the Carabinieri. They discovered a stash of hundreds of looted antiquities together with a photographic archive of every object Evangelisti had ever dug up.

2006

William D. Walsh and his wife Jane donate 260 antiquities from their collection to Fordham University Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in New York.

Around 2010

Using the Evangelisti images, the urn was identified probably by the Italian authorities at the collection of the Fordham University Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in New York. 

Artefact Status

2022

The urn remained on exhibition at the collection of Fordham University Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in New York, with the permission of the Italian State, after the ownership of the urn passed to Italy.