Etruscan terracotta votive head 3rd-2nd C. BCE

"Now, of those prophecies made when Torquatus and Cotta were consuls, —
Made by a Lydian diviner, by one of Etruscan extraction —
All, in the round of your crowded twelve months, were brought to fulfilment.
For high-thundering Jove, as he stood on starry Olympus,
Hurled forth his blows at the temples and monuments raised in his honour,
And on the Capitol's site he unloosed the bolts of his lightning.
Then fell the brazen image of Natta, ancient and honoured:
Vanished the tablets of laws long ago divinely enacted;
Wholly destroyed were the statues of Gods by the heat of the lightning.
Here was the Martian beast, the nurse of Roman dominion,
Suckling with life-giving dew, that issued from udders distended,
Children divinely begotten, who sprang from the loins of the War God;
Stricken by lightning she toppled to earth, bearing with her the children;
Torn from her station, she left the prints of her feet in descending..."

-Cicero, On Divination: Book 1.12

Etruscan terracotta votive head 3rd-2nd C. BCE. German private collection. Acquired by the present owner in 1998. Hollow moulded, in the form of a female, with curling hair drawn back from her face, tresses falling down either side of neck, wearing small disc earrings, 9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) high; another, in the form of a youth, with striated hair and prominent ears, 10½ in. (27 cm.) high; another votive male head, smaller, with curling hair, 7 in. (18 cm.) high; and a fragmentary Etruscan terracotta votive left foot, 6¾ in. (17 cm.) long, all 3rd-2nd Century B.C

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Found on auction site.

 

Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cicero/de_Divinatione/1*.html#R12