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Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima
Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima

Head in wood

Anonymous

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Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Corso Magenta, 15, Milan

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The head, ornament of a Canopic vase, is the only wooden example of Etruscan sculpture that has survived. It is an authentic artefact, as confirmed by the radiometric analysis C14, donated to the Archaeological Museum of Milan in 1987 by a private collector. The canopic jars were so called by nineteenth-century scholars for their resemblance to Egyptian funerary vessels, closed by animal or human head lids and containing the organs of the dead. However, this type of ossuary was usual only for the Etruscans of the Chiusina area who, still in the VII-VI century BC. they had not abandoned the funerary habit of cremation, thus distinguishing themselves from the Etruscans of Cerveteri and Tarquinia, more inclined to inundation in large chamber and mound tombs. The head of the Archaeological Museum of Milan is probably female, as both the long braid hairstyle and the holes in the lobes seem to indicate, a trace of the existence of earrings. Originally it had to be equipped with irises and pupils made of bone, ivory or glass paste, and be covered with a gold leaf, of which traces remain on the face. Although neither the origin nor the context is known, it is likely that it surmounted a vase containing the ashes of an important person and that it was part of the equipment of a princely tomb.
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Title: Head in wood

Author: Anonymous

Date: 7th century needle.

Technique: Wood

Displayed in: Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

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