Statuette of a Male Offerant
300–100 B.C.
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 8 × 1.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-252646
Statuette of an offerant or priest wearing a toga draped over his left shoulder and a foliate crown with five leaves. The extended right arm, broken above the elbow, originally would have held a patera for pouring libations. The missing left arm likely projected out from the left hip and held a round incense box (pyxis). The solid-cast figure is flat, with schematic facial features and drapery. On the back of the statuette, “Perugia” is written in black ink (19th or early 20th century cursive). It was once mounted on a modern marble block (golden yellow marble with dark reddish veins, giallo antico?), inscribed in black pencil on the underside “Penate. [Late Etruscan]”.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
Registry history
- 300–100 B.C. — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — sculpture
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