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Statuette of a Youth
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About this work
Cast in one piece with its hollow base (perhaps designed to crown a candelabrum), this small bronze portrays a young man wearing a semicircular cloak adorned with punched circles along its edges. This likely represents an embroidered tebenna , an Etruscan forerunner to the Roman toga praetexta . He appears to stride forward, his right leg trailing behind and right hand extended, perhaps once holding an object.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStatuette of a Youth, c. 520–500 BCE. Italy, Etruscan, Archaic Period. Bronze; overall: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1929.441
