Harvard Art Museums > 1998.15.14.1: Head of a Warrior Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of a Warrior , 1998.15.14.1,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/350365. Identification and Creation Object Number 1998.15.14.1 Title Head of a Warrior Classification Sculpture Work Type statuette, sculpture Date 6th-4th century BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe Period Iron Age Culture Italic Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/350365 Physical Descriptions Medium Copper alloy Technique Cast Dimensions 2.2 x 2.1 x 0.2 cm (7/8 x 13/16 x 1/16 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of William A. Koshland Accession Year 1998 Object Number 1998.15.14.1 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums This is a helmeted head from a small, highly schematic Archaic Umbrian statuette; the piriform shape is a representation of the crest of the helmet. There is a slight taper from the thickness of the neck (2 mm) to the tip of the crest (1 mm). Some small chips are missing from the edge of the crest, including one corner. When this piece originally came to the Harvard Art Museums, it was attached to the hand of a larger warrior statuette of the same style. The two have since been separated (see 1998.15.14). Statues and statuettes of warriors in an attacking stance are quite common and range from highly developed—for instance Harvard’s 1977.216.2310—to very abstract, such as the present example (1). NOTES: 1. Compare M. Bolla and G. P. Tabone, Bronzistica figurata preromana e romana del Civico Museo Archeologico “Giovio” di Como (Como, 1996) 44-55, nos. A19-32, esp. A19. See also A.-M. Adam, Bronzes étrusques et italiques (Paris, 1984) 175, no. 260; A. Caravale, Museo Claudio Faina di Orvieto: Bronzetti votivi (Milan, 2003) 66-68, nos. 46-50; G. Colonna, Bronzi votivi umbro-sabellici a figura umana 1: Periodo “arcaico” (Florence, 1970) 100-103, no. 285, pl. 72; and M. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1976) 175-76, nos. 206-207. Lisa M. Anderson Subjects and Contexts Ancient Bronzes Related Works 1998.15.14 Warrior Sculpture Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
