An Etruscan-Roman terracotta votive male half-head, Italy, presumably 4th/3rd C. B.C.

H 23,3 cm

Prov.:

- With a 10 April 1993 dated certificate by André De Munter Archeology, Brussels. 

Ref.:

- A similar Etruscan terracotta votive male half-head sold at Christie's, New York, Sale 17643, Oct. 28, 2019, Lot 434 (USD 4.375, link).

- For other items of the De Munter-collection, see for example a Hellenistic terracotta statuette of a woman with a duck from Canosa, ex-collection Christoph Backer, Archäologie - Ancient Art (link).

- For more information about votive half-heads: O. de Cazanove, 'Les demi-têtes, un produit de l’artisanat religieux dans l’Italie républicaine', in: J.-P. Brun (ed.), Artisanats antiques d'Italie et de Gaule. Mélanges offerts à Maria Francesca Buonaiuto, Naples, 2019, pp. 39-51.