Female Statuette (600–480 BCE): Art, History and Details

Female Statuette (600–480 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Standing barefoot on a flat base, this woman wears a tunic with a decorated edge, a thick mantle draped over her left shoulder, and a headband. She extends both hands, though the left is damaged and the right missing. Her identity might have been made clear by the attributes she once held—a bird or pomegranate for Turan (the Etruscan analogue to Aphrodite), for example, or an offering dish or vessel for a worshipper.

Object facts

• Title: Female Statuette
• Date: 600–480 BCE
• Culture: Italy, Etruscan, Archaic period
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.); Base: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.)
• Collection: GR - Etruscan
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1916.2013

A detail from the museum

The flat, integrated base of this statuette includes an attachment element below.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

View the collection record

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