Bronze statuette of a female votary
Unknown
4th–3rd century BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art
An elegantly dressed woman wears a diadem and a pendant necklace. She holds a pomegranate, a symbol of fertility often associated with Turan (Roman: Venus) or Phersipnei (Roman: Persephone), and once may have held a libation bowl in her right hand.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 4th–3rd century BCE
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- Etruscan
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1965
