CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.

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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE WITH INSCRIPTION
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
10 7/8 in. (27.8 cm) high

Provenance

Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, prior to 1982.

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Lot Essay

This unusually large, solid-cast, votive statuette represents a nude boy holding a small round offering (possibly a fruit) in his right hand. The treatment of the hair, swept back in luscious locks, and slight tilt of the head are typical of the Hellenistic taste of the period. A comparable bronze female votive figure found around Cortona and now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Leiden, cf. M. Cristofani, I Bronzi degli Etruschi, Novara, 1985, p. 274, no. 71. For a much earlier archaic votive bronze of a youth holding a circular object, cf. British museum, inv. no. 1974,1204.2.

The left leg is inscribed with the offering formula, MINI TURC ARNTH TITLES ARTHALISA REZLAI, 'Titus Arnth dedicated me to Revla'.

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