Cleveland Museum of Art

Statuette of a Youth

Date

c. 520–500 BCE

Medium

bronze

Culture

Italy, Etruscan, Archaic Period

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cast in one piece with its hollow base (perhaps designed to crown a candelabrum), this small bronze portrays a young man wearing a semicircular cloak adorned with punched circles along its edges. This likely represents an embroidered tebenna , an Etruscan forerunner to the Roman toga praetexta . He appears to stride forward, his right leg trailing behind and right hand extended, perhaps once holding an object. Unusually, this figure places his hand on hip with thumb in front, fingers in back.

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