ETRUSCAN BRONZE PLAQUE
ca. 500 - 480 BC
cm 14 x 10

Part of a furniture, vehicle or door fitting. Interesting scene, probably referable to the birth of Menrva - Minerva: the little goddess, born from the head of Tinia - Jupiter, is depicted in a small size, between two adults, probably Tinia himself, enthroned, and Sethlans - Vulcan, standing. Similar Etruscan bronze plaques, but from the Archaic period, also in the Edward Perry Warren collection in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (cf. Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1971, no. 690).

Provenance. English private collection; said to be part of the Ferenc Pulszky sale, Paris, May 1868.