Terracotta, press-molded; small female head from statuette; wears narrow rayed diadem with laurel wreath above it; button earrings with drops; long neck; trace of drapery on right side; nose and lips abraded; height: 7.5 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Vignaccia temple, Caere (ancient place), Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Vignaccia temple; 1885?
Culture or time period:
Etruscan Classical Period (480–325 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson and Lazzari
Collection date:
1885?
Materials:
Terracotta (clay material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Figurines and Women (female humans)
Production date:
400-300 BC
Accession date:
November 12, 1902
Context of use:
Etruscan, votive offering to Artumes, 400–300 BC (see Maule and Smith, 1959).
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:
S1929: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–1945) and S1968-1969 #35: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (November 6, 1968–February 7, 1969)