Centaur of Vulci
The Centaur of Vulci is a statue of the Etruscan Orientalizing period discovered in Vulci in Etruria viterbese and kept in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome.
History
The statue was discovered in a camera tomb in the necropolis of Poggio Maremma in Vulci Archaeological Park.
Description
This is a nenfro statue, dating from 590-580 BC. It represents a centaur, a character from Greek mythology: a human torso and a horse body.
The head, with an incised beard and a hair falling into three braids on the upper legs, gives way to a brief chest and an equine body which lacks the tail. The arms are missing and also the legs below the knees; hands are visible on the hips.
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