This work, which came from the Wurts collection (inv. W 388), is sculpted in bass-relief with scenes from the ‘History of Troy’, as a handwritten pencil inscription on the reverse reveals. More precisely, several episodes from the Aeneid are illustrated. The story here, catalogued as ‘two women talking in a cave and a woman falling on a sword’, is played out in a sequence of episodes, which can be read in a clockwise direction: at the top, Aeneas and his loyal companion Achates disembark on the shores of Cathage (Aen. III); lower right, in a type of curved frame, which serves to divide the scenes, Dido is talking with her sister Anna, who holds up her index finger as she convinces Dido to embrace her love for Aeneas (Aen. IV 1-53); on the lower left is the terrible consequence of this act of persuasion, the suicide of Dido, who was seduced and abandoned (Aen. IV 663-692), as she throws herself of Aeneas’s sword, who has left her to fulfil his destiny. The work forms part of a group of four reliefs that are each inside a wooden frame (in this case measuring 34.6 x 39 cm): PV 7574, 7575, 7576. It is difficult to pinpoint the original setting and function of these works, which stylistically seem to belong to early 16th century Venice. Technical-scientific analysis carried out in 2009 by IVALSA-CNR in Florence identified the wood used as tilia (Tilia sp.).