Currently not on view
Head of a young satyr,
2nd century BCE
Italic, Etruscan
y1949-9
Information
Title
Head of a young satyr
Dates
2nd century BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
19.5 x 15.5 x 15.0 cm (7 11/16 x 6 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Jessie P. Frothingham in memory of her father and brother
Object Number
y1949-9
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Acquired by Jessie P. Frothingham at an unknown date from an unknown source; bequeathed to the Museum by Frothingham in 1949 in memory of her father (Arthur Lincoln Frothingham) and brother (Arthur Lincoln Frothingham, Jr.)
- Frances Follin Jones, "A terracotta head in Princeton," Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 36 (1977): p. 102-105., p. 102-105.
- Frederick R. Matson, "Technological comments on the Princeton terracotta head", Journal of The Walters Art Gallery 36 (1977): p. 106-109.
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 83
- M. Cristofani, "La Decorazione frontonale in Italia Centrale fra IV e II secolo A.C.,", in La coroplastica templare etrusca fra il IV e il II secolo a. C.: atti del XVI Convegno di studi etruschi e italici, Orbetello, 25-29 aprile 1988, (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1992). , p. 46, pl. XIIIa.
- Françoise Gaultier, "L'Ariane de Faléries," in Irene Berlingò, et. al., eds., Damarato: Studi di Antichita classica offerti a Paola Pelagatti, (Milan: Electa, 2000)., p. 290
