Figurine

Museum number:
8-2798
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
IIH22d (reference number)
Accession number:
Acc.50
Description:
Terracotta female head from a statuette; preserved to base of neck; hair parted in center, pulled back in clumps; wears some sort of diadem, leaves over her left ear and probably button in center , now lost; surface worn on right cheek; press-molded.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Vignaccia temple, Caere (ancient place), Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Vignaccia temple
Culture or time period:
Etruscan
Collector:
Alfred Emerson and Lazzari
Materials:
Ceramic (material) and Terracotta (clay material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Figurines
Accession date:
November 12, 1902
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 8-2798, described as Terracotta female head from a statuette; preserved to base of neck; hair parted in center, pulled back in clumps; wears some sort of diadem, leaves over her left ear and probably button in center , now lost; surface worn on right cheek; press-molded.

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