Object photograph·fol. 47r

Terracotta masks, figurines and animal figures

Masks, small figurines and animal figures arranged in rows on dark cloth shelves, mounted on an album page. — Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 47r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

Several round and fragmentary masks stand along the back row, with one larger mask set in a wooden frame at the centre. In front are small standing and seated figures, a bird, animal forms and a shallow dish holding small pieces. Each object sits on a dark base or on the cloth, and small white tags are attached at the bottoms of several pieces against a plain dark background.

English

Terracotta masks, figurines and animal figures: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 47r.