Cinerary Urn of the Master of Oenomaus

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The lid depicts a couple seated on a kline, engaged in a banquet translated into the hereafter. The high-relief on the casket shows the intervention of Etruscan demons in an episode from the Greek myth of the killing of Oenomaus by Pelopes. Oenomaus, Lord of Pisa in Elis, used to challenge the suitors of his daughter Hippodamia to a fatal chariot race, from Pisa to the Isthmus of Corinth, during which he caught up with them and ran them through with his spear. Pelopes finally managed to win, using the horses he had received as a gift from Poseidon, or according to another version, by corrupting Myrtilus, Oenomaus’ charioteer, who sabotaged a wheel of his master’s chariot. Oenomaus is depictedA baffled shopper was left in a lather after she received three bars of soap instead of a new phone worth more than Dh2,600 in a delivery mix-up.

Aisha Deeb ordered a Google Pixel 2XL 128GB phone last Wednesday on Souq.com, the region’s largest online retailer.

She was told she would receive the phone – which cost Dh2,613.45 – the following day, but said the courier did not attempt to deliver it until Sunday.

The Brit was left clean out of luck when the order not only turned up late, but with surprising contents.

She has been told she will get a full refund - as soon as she gives back the bars of soap.

The delivery was left on her doorstep without an attempt being made to obtain a signature for it.

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