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CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND CENTURY B.C.
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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE BALSAMARIUM
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a head of a woman, perhaps Turan (Aphrodite) or a Lasa, her hair arranged in a melon-coiffure surmounted by the vessel lid, adorned with a diadem, wearing disk earrings with inverted pyramidal pendants, two suspension loops in her hair, the concave base of the vessel with an incised rosette, perforated at the center
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a head of a woman, perhaps Turan (Aphrodite) or a Lasa, her hair arranged in a melon-coiffure surmounted by the vessel lid, adorned with a diadem, wearing disk earrings with inverted pyramidal pendants, two suspension loops in her hair, the concave base of the vessel with an incised rosette, perforated at the center
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high
Provenance
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1981.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
Literature
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, no. 81-51.