Shaft of a bronze thymiaterion (incense burner), Etruscan, 5th century B.C. OASC The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Period:
- Classical
- Date:
- 5th century B.C.
- Culture:
- Etruscan
- Medium:
- Bronze
- Dimensions:
- H.: 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm)
- Classification:
- Bronzes
- Credit Line:
- Fletcher Fund, 1927
- Accession Number:
- 27.122.20
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 170.
Original description says:
During the fifth century B.C., the Etruscans were expanding their trade contacts throughout the Mediterranean world. The man in Persian costume is an unusual expression of the Etruscan interest in the exotic.
Compare to the hats and pillars:
The Berlin Gold Hat or Berlin Golden Hat (German: Berliner Goldhut). CC BY Philip Pikart via Wikipedia. The Berlin Gold Hat or Berlin Golden Hat is a Late Bronze Age artefact made of thin gold leaf. It served as the external covering on a long conical brimmed headdress, probably of an organic material. It is now in the Neues Museum on Museum Island in Berlin, in a room by itself with an elaborate explanatory display. The Berlin Gold Hat is the best preserved specimen among the four known conical Golden hats known from Bronze Age Europe so far. Of the three others, two were found in southern Germany, and one in the west of France.
Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch 11.-9. century BC. Via Civic Virtue. The Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch (German: Goldblechkegel von Ezelsdorf Buch) is a Late Bronze Age artefact discovered in 1953 between the villages of Ezelsdorf (Franconia) and Buch (Bavaria) in Southern Germany. A tall (88 cm), cone-shaped object made of thin sheet gold, it is seen as belonging to a group of artifacts referred to as Bronze Age Golden hats. It was presumably worn by special functionaries on ceremonial occasions.
The Golden Hat of Schifferstadt at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer. CC BY-SA DerHexer via Wikimedia Commons. The Golden Hat of Schifferstadt (German: Der Goldene Hut von Schifferstadt) was discovered in a field near the town of Schifferstadt in Southwest Germany in 1835. It is a Bronze Age artefact made of thin sheet gold and served as the external decoration of a head-dress, probably of an organic material, with a brim and a chin-strap. The hat is one of the group of four similar artifacts known as the Golden hats.
The Avanton Gold Cone or Avanton Cone (French: Cône d'Or d'Avanton or Cône d'Avanton) is a late Bronze Age artefact, belonging to the group of Golden hats, only four of which are known so far.
The Avanton Cone was the second such object to be discovered (after the Golden Hat of Schifferstadt). CC BY-SA via Wikipedia.
It was found in 1844 in a field near the village of Avanton, about 12 km north of Poitiers, France. The object was damaged; comparison with other finds suggests that a part (the brim) is missing. The remaining part of the Avanton cone is 55 cm long and weighs 285 g. Originally dated to the Middle Bronze and suggested to be a fertility symbol, it now appears to be of later date and more complex function (see Golden hats).
The Avanton Cone is on display in the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris.
Djed pillar on the coffin
Back of the coffin of Ameneminet (Imeneminet). The djed pillar is shown on the back and inside of the coffin. Third Intermediate Period.
E5534 Louvre Museum. © Heidi Kontkanen.
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