Terracotta pomegranate, press-molded; five lobes on top and bottom; hole in top and stem in bottom; broken and rejoined along horizontal crack slightly below halfway down; height: 7.5 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Vignaccia temple, Caere (ancient place), Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Vignaccia temple
Culture or time period:
Etruscan Classical Period (480–325 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1885?
Materials:
Terracotta (clay material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Figurines
Production date:
400-300 BC
Accession date:
November 12, 1902
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Comment:
(see Maule and Smith, 1959). Found with ca. 6000 figurines in pits; see accession file for list of associated terracottas in PAHMA collection.
Loans:
S1974-1975 #8: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (December 5, 1973–November 19, 1974)