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Statuette of a Warrior
500–450 BCE
Location: not on view
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The lump of lead beneath its feet probably once secured this figurine to a base.Description
Striding forward with its left foot, this warrior likely once held a shield in the left hand and a spear or sword in the right. The statuette was acquired together with a miniature bronze sword with which it was said to have been found; a photograph taken around 1890 shows the warrior with the sword attached—probably wrongly—to the left hand. He wears an unusual helmet with two raised elements on top, and a simple v-neck cuirass or tunic with a lower border of dots and flaps. Many similarly posed bronze figurines have been found across central Italy, but scholars disagree as to whether they represent divine or mortal warriors.- Said to have been found fifty miles west of Rimini, Italybefore 1900Italy, Private Collection1967-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly XXX.2 (Summer 1967), pp. 153, 155 (ill.)."Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (1967): 302-46. Ill. p. 303. www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 20 archive.orgCooney, John D. "A Miscellany of Ancient Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 7 (1971): 210-18. Discussed pp. 215-216, figs. 9, 11. www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 26 archive.org
- Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
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