Pendant
Object Number:
MS1044
Current Location:
Etruscan Italy Gallery
Culture:
Faliscan
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Narce
Locus:
Tomb 23M
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Bronze
Description:
Bronze; semicircular. Made from single circular sheet of bronze, folded double and fastened by rings of bronze wire passed through matching perforations. Those at upper corners larger for suspension from a necklace; those along curved margin are smaller; joined to 3 of them, other rings, showing existance of chains for the suspension of smaller ornaments. Outer face of pendant: repousse decoration, a stag flanked by concentric circles about central bosses.
Length:
11.3cm
Width:
5.4cm
Other Number:
| 256 | - | Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions:
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: 10, 106
[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: 11
[Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 43
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