Pozzuoli / votive figure - child's head / Ceramic
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.2833
- Object Name
- votive figure - child's head
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Votive figurines
- Materials
- Ceramic
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 14.4 cm ear to ear);
- Height
- 21.6 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;1769g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Red terracotta. Head of a child with small chubby face, small almond eyes and parted lips. Wavy locks of hair. Tiny curls below small ears. Mantal surrounds back of head. Hole and smaller hole in back. Crack at corner of left eye. Good condition.
- Gazda: Votive head of a veiled child. Clay.
- Subjects
- Veiled Child’s head
- Verbatim Date
- 3rd - 1st C BC
- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy
- Verbatim Site
- Pozzuoli
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- In Pursuit of Antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome and the Bay of Naples (1899-1914)
- Images of Empire; Flavian Fragments in Rome and Ann Arbor Rejoined
- Case 26 - Health and Beauty
- Exhibition Curator
- Gazda, Elaine
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 116 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.2833
- Link to this Item
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