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| Keywords: Etruscan - Kouros Votive Figure - Walters 54102.jpg This statuette of a male figure has his arms by his sides and his left foot forward in the manner of a Greek Kouros a type of statue that depicts a nude youth This statuette is considered the earliest of the surviving bronzes from a large deposit of votive objects including over 600 bronzes found in 1838 on Mount Falterona at a site known as the Lake of Idols ca 550 520 BC bronze cm 12 3 7 3 ; Mount cm 2 2 4 9 4 8 accession number 54 102 5562 Found at Falterona Capranesi Collection Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters f place of origin Nuremberg Germany Walters Art Museum license Etruscan art in the Walters Art Museum Etruscan bronzes in the United States Kouroi in the United States | ||||
