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Statuette of a Warrior
The collection record classifies this work as sculpture. It is dated 500–450 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Etruscan.
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- Museum title
- Statuette of a Warrior
- Date
- 500–450 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Etruscan
- Materials and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 28 cm (11 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1967.32
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Striding forward with its left foot, this warrior likely once held a shield in the left hand and a spear or sword in the right. The statuette was acquired together with a miniature bronze sword with which it was said to have been found; a photograph taken around 1890 shows the warrior with the sword attached—probably wrongly—to the left hand. He wears an unusual helmet with two raised elements on top, and a simple v-neck cuirass or tunic with a lower border of dots and flaps. Many similarly posed bronze figurines have been found across central Italy, but scholars disagree as to whether they represent divine or mortal warriors.
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