Statuette of standing naked youth with Etruscan inscription
- Title:
- Statuette of standing naked youth with Etruscan inscription
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
second quarter of the 4th c. BCE
- Site:
- Italy (original)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room GM 01), Cornell University
Italy (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0800
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 382
yellowed label at front of base "382"
739 - File Name:
- CCC_0800.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 27.2 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Etruscan
- Style/Period:
- Etruscan Classical period
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
bronze sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Apollo (Greek deity)
Aplu or Apulu (Etruscan deity)
Inscriptions, Etruscan - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 28.5 x 7.5 x 9 (centimeters)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a small Etruscan votive bronze of a standing, naked youth, possibly Apollo (Aplu), housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The figure stands in contrapposto placing his weight on his left leg. He rests his right hand on his hip and there is a short chlamys slung over his forearm. The braceleted left arm of the original is missing from above the elbow
here the arm is broken from just below the shoulder. He wears a wreath in his curly hair, a necklace with bullae, and mid-length boots. Written in two lines down the length of the figure's left leg is a dedicatory inscription in Etruscan that reads "mi fleres spulare aritimi fasti rufris trce clen cecha" (Bonfante translation: "I am the statue, or votive offering, (which) Fasti Rufris gave according to ritual to Artemis Spulare on behalf of her son"). The cast is painted a black-green to approximate the appearance of the original bronze. Of unknown provenience, the statuette has been known since at least the 16th century, when it was in the collection of Alfonso d’Este in the library of the Dukes of Ferrara. - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. bronze.101 - Bibliography:
- Anne-Marie Adam, Bronzes Étrusques et Italiques, Bibliothéque Nationale, Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques (Paris: Bibliothéque Nationale, 1984), 166-167, no. 244
Giuliano Bonfante and Larissa Bonfante, The Etruscan Language: An Introduction (New York: New York University Press, 1983), 165, no. 47 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.