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Made in Pompeii, Italy (early 1800s). This model of a tomb in Italy shows the pots of food and drink, and the weapons and armour buried with a man from the Etruscan period, 400-300 BC. The Etruscans were very careful to provide elaborately decorated tombs if buried or urns to keep their ashes in if cremated, to keep their dead happy.