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Incense Burner
The collection record classifies this work as metalwork. It is dated 100s BCE. Recorded culture or place: Etruscan.
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- Museum title
- Incense Burner
- Date
- 100s BCE
- Culture / origin
- Etruscan
- Materials and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 61 cm (24 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1952.96
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Both elaborate and functional, the Etruscan thymiaterion, or incense burner, typically comprises at least three main parts—tripod stand, shaft, and, at the top, a shallow bowl for incense. Often, a figural support is incorporated, here in the form of a youthful male nude, perhaps the wine god Dionysos. Below him, the tripod stand features cloven hoofs, while above him a spotted cat or panther climbs toward a rooster or other crested bird. Holes in each corner of the square upper plate likely held additional animals or other ornaments.
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