Funerary Chest Depicting a Wolf (Los Chorrillos Necropolis, Mengíbar, Jaén)

Quadrangular funerary chest made of limestone dated between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. It belongs to the culture of the Iberians and comes from the Los Chorrillos Necropolis in the municipality of Mengíbar, Jaén province, Spain.It is 66 cm high, 88 cm wide and 43 cm thick.It consists of two pieces. The lid is a stone slab that presents a wolf’s head in bas-relief; from the wolf’s shoulders emer…