Mask: female

Museum number:
8-2947
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
IA13a (reference number)
Accession number:
Acc.50
Description:
Fragmentary terracotta female head, surrounded by very wide flange, back preserved; whole piece broken diagonally at neck; hair parted in center and pulled back; grape cluster earrings partially preserved on left side; white terracotta, press-molded.--check Mask ?
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
Materials:
Ceramic (material) and Terracotta (clay material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Masks (costume) and Women (female humans)
Accession date:
November 12, 1902
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask: female, accession number 8-2947, described as Fragmentary terracotta female head, surrounded by very wide flange, back preserved; whole piece broken diagonally at neck; hair parted in center and pulled back; grape cluster earrings partially preserved on left side; white terracotta, press-molded.--check Mask ?
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask: female, accession number 8-2947, described as Fragmentary terracotta female head, surrounded by very wide flange, back preserved; whole piece broken diagonally at neck; hair parted in center and pulled back; grape cluster earrings partially preserved on left side; white terracotta, press-molded.--check Mask ?

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