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Built from the eighth to the 12th centuries, San Pietro stands at the ba ck of a grassy courtyard with Etruscan sarcophagi, beside two crumbling medieval towers.
Look for the many other gems in the collection, in particular the wrinkled features of the Berlin Green Head, the restored temple courtyard of King Sahu-Re, a mummy and sarcophagi, and charming blue faience funerary objects in the form of animals.
Excavations of tombs have also been fruitful and the museum displays some beautiful clay sarcophagi.
In Eastern Europe, exhumed bodies have been used as symbols by political parties, as anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains in her forthcoming book, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Postsocialist Transformation . For instance, liberal reform parties have disinterred Communist leaders from their mausoleums while reburying pre-Communist nationalist heroes in elaborate sarcophagi.
The 1260 carving of biblical themes has clear links to French Gothic sculpture, while drawing on models from Roman and Etruscan sarcophagi — a Herculean Daniel and a Mary inspired by heads of Juno and Phaedra.