Statuette

MS2770

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2770
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 1
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Iconography Female
Description

Bronze; arms broken; inserted between feet and causing spread of legs is a large bronze rivet for attachment. A hole for a second rivet bored from front to back at level of srms. Breasts small, sexual parts over large. Face triangular; chin raised. Figure apparently used to connect a tripos and a bowl after the manner of figures on a tripos from the Bernardini Tomb.

Height 5.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1898

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