The Sarcophagus of the Spouses is a masterpiece of Etruscan art. It is a late 6th century BC Etruscan anthropoid sarcophagus from Caere and is in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome. made of terracotta which was once brightly painted. It depicts a married couple reclining at a banquet together in the afterlife and was found in 19th century excavations at the necropolis of Cerveteri (ancient Caere). Etruscan culture practiced cremation, so the tomb housed ashes rather than body rem