
Rebecca Gayle Howell (ed.)
et al.
Published online:
18 May 2023
Published in print:
07 March 2023
Online ISBN:
9780813197418
Print ISBN:
9780813182438
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Chapter
An Hour with an Etruscan Sarcophagus
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Published:March 2023
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McDonough, Jill, 'An Hour with an Etruscan Sarcophagus', in Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones, and Emily J. Jalloul (eds), What Things Cost: an anthology for the people (Lexington, KY , 2023; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 18 May 2023), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813182438.003.0116, accessed 15 May 2025.
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Not the carved seals or gold libation cups,mummies, alabaster urns. Two minutesalone with this Etruscan sarcophagus and I’min tears. Nobody saw; I totally got away with it.Something about the stonecutter’s wife, I think—not the rich couple together in stone forever, not eventhe man who carved the jowly face, the woman’s handson her husband’s chest, chest doughy even carved in stone.But the wife who knows they don’t get an Etruscansarcophagus, that even though her Etruscan husbandcarves them, they can’t have this softeningof death, this consolation prize. Last week, midnightin a friend’s kitchen, I burst into tears over what I don’t get,wished aloud I’d gone to Goldman Sachs after college, howthen Josey wouldn’t have to work. Rachel put her armsaround me, said Shh. Said, Ah, Jill, you’ve made allthe right choices. You’ve done everything just right.I’m always wishing for money, for new siding,just one job, a week off for Josey, off her feet.But today, fresh from the Etruscan sarcophagi, I’m bigger,wish for all of us, for you, for the stonecutter’s wife,for your children’s children, such a friend in sucha kitchen, such a crying jag, an hour with an Etruscansarcophagus to think it all over, write it down.
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