figure
- Museum number
- 1873,0820.637
- Description
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Terracotta seated figure, perhaps an ancestor, once enthroned on a rock-cut chair. The figure wears a chequered tunic and mantle fastened at the shoulder with clasp.
- Production date
- 625BC-600BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 51 centimetres
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Depth: 26 centimetres (Knee to back of figure)
- Curator's comments
- The concept of large-scale sculpture and style of the face show inspiration from the East Mediterranean. but details of the clothing and jewellery are Etruscan.
Restored - the head is female but the body may be male.
Pair with 1873.8-20.638.
- Location
- On display (G71/dc18)
- Exhibition history
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Les Etrusques et la Mediterranee: la cite de Cerveteri at Musee du Louvre, Lens 4 December 2013 - 10 March 2014 and Palazzo delle Espizioni, Rome 14 April to 20 July 2014.
Exhibited:
Les Etrusques et la Mediterranee: la cite de Cerveteri at Musee du Louvre, Lens 4 December 2013 - 10 March 2014 and Palazzo delle Espizioni, Rome 14 April to 20 July 2014.
2000 1 Oct-2001 1 Apr, Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 'Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa'
2011-2012 14 Oct-18 March, Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, The Etruscans - Richness and Religion
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Acquisition notes
- Found during 1865 in a side-chamber of the tomb.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.637
