Sculpture

Votive

MS1615

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS1615
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Provenience Italy | Etruria (uncertain)
Date Made 4th century BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Iconography Heracles
Description

Votive Figurine (Hercules). Bronze. Etruscan workmanship under Greek influence. Wears lion's head over head with four paws knotted around neck and end of lion's skin over left arm. In right hand he holds a club.

Height 14.2 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 994 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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