Veii / sculpture fragment / Ceramic

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1770
Object Name: sculpture fragment
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Votive figurines
Materials: Ceramic
Length: 12.0;
Width: 21;
Height: 40.2;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;3661 g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Very flat and summarily rendered torso with plastically modeled band running from left shoulder across chest to right hand at the waist. Where band meets hand is a hole for some attachment, perhaps an offering. Vague attempt to model vertical folds of togs. Left hand and sleeve of toga along left side. Traces of framing veil at left shoulder. Another hole perhaps for attachment, at left hand. Broken off at neck of shoulder joint and also at groin so that half of left hand is gone. Back fairly flat. Hollow. Chipped and cracked especially on back.
Subjects: Clothed torso
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Veii
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Caught Looking: Exhibiting the Kelsey; Case 26 - Health and Beauty
Exhibition Curator: Thomas, Thelma K.; Wilfong, Terry; Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2009
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1770
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1770/dscn5699.jpg

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Full citation: "Veii; sculpture fragment; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1770/dscn5699.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.