Plaque
MS855D
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS855D |
Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
Locus | Tomb 43 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Bronze |
Description | Rectangular Plaques (14). Measurements vary from 0.034 m x 0.035 m to 0.014 m x 0.014 m. Rectangular Plaques (30). Measurements vary from 0.034m x 0.035m to 0.014m x 0.014m. Thin bronze plaques bearing this number and MS 854 are thirty in number. Some are oblong, some square. Five are slightly convex at present, originally probably flat. Small perforations in corners for nailing to wood or leather backing or for sewing to a garment. Commonest scheme of decoration 2 diagonals of punched dots, but there also occurs a star of the same with one or more circles at its center and on 2 of the largest plaques, concentric circles in the center and three rows of fine dots along the contours of the plaque. |
Length | 3.4 cm |
Width | 3.5 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
Other Number | 825 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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