Statue
MS721
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS721 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Locus | Tomb 21 |
| Date Made | 625-600 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Nenfro | Tuff |
| Technique | Carved |
| Iconography | Head | Sphinx? |
| Description | Obliquely fractured to leave a little over half of head. Abraded on chin, nose and hair tresses. Pumice like appearance, coarse. No shoulder; cut for Xoanon. Front of neck has triangular draping lines. Tresses cut in herring-bone /pattern at side of head. |
| Height | 43 cm |
| Depth | 24 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 16.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 248 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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