Etruscan female votive head 3rd C. BCE

"When the Tyrrhenians came near the Romans and observed the situation of their camp, which lay under a flank of a hill, they felt contempt for the inexperience of the general and gladly grasped the advantage presented to them by Fortune."

-Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities: Book 9.23

Etruscan female votive head, terracotta, 3rd C. BCE.

Source:

Image taken from an auction site.

 

Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/9A*.html#23