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Statuette of a Youth

c. 520–500 BCE

Italy, Etruscan, Archaic Period

Medium
bronze
Measurements
Overall: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.441
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Location
102D Pre-Roman
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Unusually, this figure places his hand on hip with thumb in front, fingers in back.

Description

Cast in one piece with its hollow base (perhaps designed to crown a candelabrum), this small bronze portrays a young man wearing a semicircular cloak adorned with punched circles along its edges. This likely represents an embroidered tebenna, an Etruscan forerunner to the Roman toga praetexta. He appears to stride forward, his right leg trailing behind and right hand extended, perhaps once holding an object.

Statuette of a Youth

c. 520–500 BCE

Italy, Etruscan, Archaic Period

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