CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND CENTURY B.C.

Starting in the 5th century B.C., votive offerings in terracotta gained increasing popularity throughout Etruria, southern Latium and northern Campania. Often such votives depicted parts of the human anatomy for dedications of healing. More often votives took the form of a human bust, as a representative of the whole person. More rarely the full human form, as found on the present example, was depicted. For a related example see no. 351 in I. Jucker, Italy of the Etruscans.