Judging by the gestures, he is still arguing with the tour guide

An urn that proves that ancient art is not merely vases, but a philosophy of form.

The photograph shows an Etruscan funerary urn, roughly of the 4th to 3rd centuries BC, from the collection of the Louvre. Such vessels come from central Italy, the region of Etruria, and were used to lay to rest the ashes after cremation.

The peculiarity of these urns lies in their anthropomorphic form: the upper part is fashioned as a human head and torso, sometimes with the portrait features of the deceased. The arms were added separately, so that the figure should look "alive".

For the Etruscans this was not merely a vessel, but an intermediary between worlds. The urn kept not only the ashes but the memory of the person, becoming a sort of "second body" for the soul.

Now it stands in the Louvre, embodying the phrase "I am not ceramics, I am a personality", gazing calmly at the tourists, and it seems that at any moment it will begin to explain that all this is not archaism at all, but an early form of immortality