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LOT 0542
Etruscan Ceramic Votive Foot
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
7 1/2 in. (351 grams, 19 cm).
Comprising the outer part of a right foot with elongated toes and anatomical detailing, base of a sandal visible on the outer edge.
Provenance
Acquired in Germany before 2000.
English private collection.
Literature
Cf. Oberhelman, S.M., ‘Anatomical Votive Reliefs as Evidence for specialization at Healing Sanctuaries in the Ancient Mediterranean World’ in Athens Journal of Health – Volume I, Issue I, pp.47-62, 2014, figs.5,7.
Footnotes
This object belongs to impasto ceramics of red-brown typology, and it was probably an unfinished votive foot. It could have been part of a medium-size statuette, or an anatomical ex voto related to a temple deposit, linked with a health divinity. We have parallels in Veii, Vulci and in the whole of the Latial area.
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