Figurine, Buckle - 48-2-155 | Collections

Object Number:	48-2-155
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Etruscan
Provenience:	Italy Etruria
Date Made:	599-500 BCE
Early Date:	-599
Late Date:	-500
Section:	Mediterranean
Materials:	Bronze
Iconography:	Bull Head
Height:	5.8 cm
Width:	4.65 cm
Credit Line:	Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number:	278 - Collector Number L-2-277 - Old Loan Number

Description

Bull's head. Green patina. Intact. Flat mask of bull's head, with a slit at bottom to indicate the mouth, and shallow engraved eyes. There is a ring at top of the head between horns. Projecting ends of a bar across the back at the level of the eyes, form the ears in the front. Hair and horns are grooved. Nostrils are punched dots.

Bibliography:

[Book] Warden, P. G. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 25, no. 46, pl. 4	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Thesis] Moore, Charlotte B. 1969. Description and analysis of the bronze and lead objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 68-69, no. 70; p. 316, fig. 52	View Objects related to this Actual Citation