Belt

Girdle

MS690

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS690
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Locus Tomb 42F
Date Made Early 7th c. BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Description

These are two of the Vulci aristocrat's three bronze belts. One is of an old-fashioned lozenge shape. It would have been originally fastened to a broad leather backing and have looked rather like a modern weightlifting belt. This is fine ropousse decoration on both belts: geometric patterns of bosses and lines are supplemented with images of sundisks and rays, horses, and dancing men. Vulci, 42F

Length 49.1 cm
Width 10.8 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number 127 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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