Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: Tarentum

Object Identifier: 0000.00.0227
Object Name: Fragment
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Sculpture
Materials: Clay (unfired)
Design Style: from Early Hellenistic
Length: 4.0
Width: 2.5
Height: 10.0
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Nude, flat footed right leg of male, with detailed and well modelled prominent musculature, steps forward and out. Terminates with even edge at mid femur. Pink clay (Muns.5YR 8/4) hollow moulded and unevenlly fired.; Marks: Surface uniformly scarred with soot marks.
Subjects: Leg
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Tarentum
Countermark: no
Publication Title: Terracottas in the British Museum
Publication Author: Higgins, R. A.
Publication Year: 1969
Type Category: Artifact

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Tarentum; Fragment; Clay (unfired)