Bronze statuette of a boy (slave?) running with a tray of food

            The statuette depicts a young male servant running forward, carrying aloft a round tray of food. The missing object in his right hand may have been a skewer with pieces of meat. His right foot is missing. He wears a kilt-like garment seen on other Etruscan or Italic depictions of cooks and servers. This small figure may have once decorated a piece of household equipment, such as a stand for a lamp or utensils.

The statuette combines Etruscan and Italic stylistic features and was probably created in central Italy somewhere on the fringes of Etruscan culture. Certain features, including the proportions of the boy's head and his pudding-bowl haircut, recall Etruscan bronze work. However, the figure's lively pose and lack of surface details are not typically Etruscan and are more common in Italic works.

Museums seem to be quite shy to identify potentially enslaved people, and it’s fair to question whether this sculpture represents one of their numbers. It’s not Roman, so it’s possible that it’s just a house servant … ?

Italic
ca. 300-200 BCE
Bronze
Getty Villa Museum (96.AB.131)
   

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