Female bust

Museum number:

8-2602

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Alternate number:

IIB12 (reference number)

Accession number:

Acc.50

Object count:

1

Description:

Terracotta fragment of seated woman who wears chiton and himation; head thrust forward as she looks up; hair in snail shell curls with high convex diadem; whitish terracotta with gray encrustation; broken below breasts; Height: 18.6 cm; Width 15.1 cm.

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:

Busts (sculpture) and Women (female humans)

Accession date:

November 12, 1902

Department:

Classical Mediterranean

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