Cleveland Museum of Art
Satyr Head
- Date
- 500s BCE
- Medium
- terracotta
- Culture
- Etruscan
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 108315
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This head of an equine-eared satyr likely comes from a mold-made terracotta antefix. He has a wide nose, a furrowed brow, and almond-shaped eyes. Traces of pigment remain in the wavy incised beard and lips. A garland, perhaps made of pointed leaves, adorns the hair. It was likely part of a larger Etruscan temple antefix of an intertwined satyr and maenad because of its identical nature to other satyr heads from complete antefixes. Satyrs are nature spirits and followers of the wine god Dionysos.
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- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- Possibly from Campania, Italy; formerly in the Ugo Jandolo Collection, Rome; purchased by Harold Parsons through Bruno Tartaglia, Rome
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