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Cuirass
| 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: | 725-700 BC |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Bronze |
| Height: | 47 cm |
| Width: | 45 cm |
| Depth: | 13 cm |
| 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:
| [Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Turfa, Jean M. 2013. The Etruscan World. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] White, Donald, et al. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Connolly, Peter. 1981. Greece and Rome at War. 320. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Stary, P. F. Zur eisenzeitlichen Bewaffnung und Kampfeweise in Mittelitalien. Marburger Studien zur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte Vol.: 3. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Article] Dohan, Edith H. 1933. "The Gallery of Italic and Etruscan Art". The University Museum Bulletin. 4 (6): 149-177. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Book] Frothingham, Arthur L. 1910. Roman Cities in Italy and Dalmatia; with sixty-one full page plates. 343. | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Article] Furtwängler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905). | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
