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Source Description
This flat, schematic statuette depicts a woman making an offering. She holds a patera or bread in her proper right hand, and another object in her left. In common with similar figures, a peaked head covering, such as a headdress, crown, or possibly the edge of her mantle, is shown around her head.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
1191
label
Priestess
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
1191
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Priestess
description
This flat, schematic statuette depicts a woman making an offering. She holds a patera or bread in her proper right hand, and another object in her left. In common with similar figures, a peaked head covering, such as a headdress, crown, or possibly the edge of her mantle, is shown around her head.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, no. 14 (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
3rd-2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
statuettes (statues)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Etruscan
med
bronze
creator_ids
6291
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
9c04eab3bbc2714d