Head on a Conical Shaft

second half 5th century BCE · Sculpture

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Cambridge, États-Unis

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Dans cet état depuis: 27 sept. 2026
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About the sculpture

A roughly rendered human head, positioned frontally, tops one end of this pin shaft. The only feature still prominent on this head is its flat, triangular nose, although eyes and a mouth are visible on the round face. The head is topped by either hair or a highly simplified cap, perhaps a diadem (1). A rib-like collar forms the head’s neck, which acts as a transition-like feature between the head and the pin’s shaft. The thick, smooth shaft of this pin is slightly bent near its midpoint. The shaft gradually tapers to a blunt point and may have broken off at this end.

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1. Compare similar heads, some with diadems, on tapering shafts published in M. T. Falconi Amorelli, ed., Todi preromana: Catalogo dei materiali conservati nel Museo Comunale di Todi (Todi, 1977) pl. 94.a-f; M. Bolla and G. P. Tabone, Bronzistica figurata preromana e romana del Civico Museo Archeologico “Giovio” di Como (Como, 1996) 83, no. A 70; and A. Naso, I bronzi etruschi e italici del Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Kataloge vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer 33 (Mainz, 2003) 49-50, nos. 83-85, pl. 28.

David Smart

Musées d'Art de Harvard