The Ficoroni cista, a small jewelry box, engraved with the episodes of the myth of...

Cistus Ficoroni, small jewelry box: it is decorated with scenes from the legend of the Argonauts. A precise inscription that Novio Plautos made it and that Dindia Macolnia donated it to his daughter. 300 BC. From Palestrina. Rome, Musee national etrusque de Villa Julia. - The Ficoroni cista (named after his first owner, Francesco Ficoroni), a small toiletaries or jewelry box (used as funerary object to accompany the deceased), engraved on bronze with the episodes of the myth of the Argonauts. Its dedicatory inscription indicates Rome as the place of production: “” Novios Plutios made me in Rome/Dindia Macolnia gave me to her daughter”. 300 BC. Found in the fourth century necropolis at Praeneste. The Villia Giulia National Etruscan Museum, Rome, Italy