Terracotta Mask Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Mar 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: Estate Edith K. Carr
notes: label: Notes
content: Relatively soft red clay. Crude flat back, but modeled into a quite realistic face that may have been a portrait. Narrow nose, prominent ears, short bearded chin, leaf crest on forehead and another set back above it. Traces of light pink show paint on the face. Donor's attribution: 3rd Cent. BC. TC Mask, Etruscan?, 500 BC. (Chesterman, James. Classical Terracotta Figures. Ward Lock, London, 1974, fig. 44).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Central Italy, Italy, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Etruscan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 265672
label: USNM Number
content: A448531-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 23.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.2 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 4.5 cm