Statue

Object Number:

59-24-1

Current Location:

Etruscan Italy Gallery

Culture:

Etruscan

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Vulci

Date Made:

550-500 BC

Early Date:

-550

Late Date:

-500

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Nenfro
Tufa

Iconography:

Winged Lion

Description:

Broken vertically behind the shoulders and horizontally across the forelegs below attachment to the body. Right ear abraded away. Some teeth missing. Pitting on the surface. Pick and shovel marks at break in back. Probably standing, head erect, wings raised. Mouth open, tongue relaxed and furrowed; eyes bulging; ruff divided into two ridges, one over forehead and one on each side of the jaws; ears closed down from top. Mane a single sharp ridge down the back of the neck. Wings: two parallel vertical planes on sides of the body. On wings: root-area outline by ridges; secondary feathers parallel sharp ridges obliquely, obliquely saw-toothed in section. Leg tenons indicated by ridges.

Credit Line:

Purchased from George Allen

Other Number:

L-403-11

Old Loan Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Philadelphia Collects: Ancient and Primitive Art in Philadelphia Collects ( May 1959 - Sep 1959)

Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000)

Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 41, 217-218

[Catalogue] White, Donald and Ann Blair Brownlee, Irene Bald Romano, Jean MacIntosh Turfa. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 27

[Catalogue] 1965. Guide to the Collections, The University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: p.59

[Book] Kohler, Ellen L. 1960. "An Etruscan Tomb-Guardian". vol. 2, no. 2. p. 25-6.

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