CIRCA MID-2ND CENTURY B.C.

The head is adorned with a high diadem with scrolling terminals over thick hair brushed away from the face and a twisted curl above the centre of the forehead. She wears large disc earrings . Etruscan stone sculpture was relatively rare and was usually reserved for funerary use. Human figures and animals are known from cinerary urns and grave markers. For a female figure from a high relief made of Nenfro see Die Etrusker und Europa, Berlin, 1992, p. 150, no. 216. For a grave marker in the form of a male bust see, Dr F. Buranelli, The Etruscans - Legacy of a Lost Civilization, Memphis, 1992, p. 198, no. 178.