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
Lot: DeCriscio, Guiseppe
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

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2833
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2833/dscn4004.jpg

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Full citation: "Pozzuoli; votive figure - child's head; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2833/dscn4004.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.