Girl Athlete

Sculpture

Museum of Antiquities - University of Saskatchewan

Catalogue Image

2015-00-00

Name/Title

Girl Athlete

Entry/Object ID

80E0540

Description

Small nude female figure holding a strigil in the left hand with the right hand raised and shielding the eyes. Resin copy of bronze original.

Type of Sculpture

Statuette

Artwork Details

Medium

Bronze

Subject

Athlete

Context

The figure was once part of the handle of a strigil.

Made/Created

Date made

300 BCE - 200 BCE

Time Period

Hellenistic

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Etruscan

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Makers Mark

Transcription

BMPL

Material/Technique

Stamped

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

21 cm

Width

7.5 cm

Depth

2.5 cm

Dimension Description

Base

Height

4.5 cm

Width

5 cm

Depth

5 cm

Web Links and URLs

Strigil at the British Museum

Research Notes

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Haynes, Sybille. Etruscan Bronze Utensils. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1965.

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Bonfante, Larissa. Etruscan Life and Afterlife. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1986.

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Swaddling, Judith. “Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa: An Etruscan aristocrat”. Women in Antiquity : Real Women across the Ancient World. Rewriting Antiquity. Eds. Budin, Stephanie Lynn, and Turfa, Jean MacIntosh. London; New York: Routledge, 2016, 769-780. Note pages 772, 773.

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Turfa, Jean MacIntosh. “Health and Medicine for Etruscan women”. Women in Antiquity : Real Women across the Ancient World. Rewriting Antiquity. Eds. Budin, Stephanie Lynn, and Turfa, Jean MacIntosh. London; New York: Routledge, 2016, 797-809. Note pages 797, 798.

Research Type

Reference

Notes

Bonfante, Larissa. Etruscan Dress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Note page 65.