Cuirass - MS851 | Collections

Object Number:	MS851
Current Location:	Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display
Culture:	Faliscan Etruscan
Provenience:	Italy Etruria Narce
Locus:	Tomb 43
Date Made:	725-700 BC
Early Date:	-725
Late Date:	-700
Section:	Mediterranean
Materials:	Bronze
Height:	47cm
Width:	45cm
Depth:	13cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number	821 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

Description

Front section. Bronze. Mounted on a modern backing of copper and green tinted plaster. Many pieces missing, mostly on shoulders and along edges; entire piece retouched to conceal joins. Made from a single sheet of bronze, edges bent over and strengthened by iron rod, bent to shape of the cuirass. Remains of connecting strap is 0.195m below one shoulder; strap one with front of cuirass is attached by 2 rivets to outer surface of the back (only one small fragment remains). Joint reinforced by patch of bronze. Sharp median line verified by curvature of original fragments. Ornament: lines, rows of dots, zigzags, triangles filled with dots, all of which also occur on the helmet from this tomb.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

	The Classical World: Italy ( Apr 1958 - 1969)	View Objects in Exhibition
	Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)	View Objects in Exhibition
	Italian Gallery (28 Mar 1951 - 1958)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

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