Etruscan votive head of a youth 4th-3rd C. BCE

"At last he (Claudius) even wrote historical works in Greek, twenty books of Etruscan History and eight of Carthaginian. Because of these works there was  added to the old Museum at Alexandria a new one called after his name, and it was provided that in the one his Etruscan History should be read each year from beginning to end, and in the other his Carthaginian, by various readers in turn, in the manner of public recitations."

-Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars: The Life of Claudius Ch.42

Etruscan votive head of a youth 4th-3rd C. BCE. Height: 27,3 cm. Entered the Hermitage in 1918; purchased from a private person. Current location: The State Hermitage Museum.

Source:

https://hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/06.%20Sculpture/973015/!ut/p/z1/jZBNT8MwDIb_Cjv0SOx-pO12i4LEGBtF4yvkgroqa4vapsrSVeLXExAXEJT5Zunx68cGCQJklx_rMre17vLG9c8yfskYi_2Q4yrj9AJZtr2lW35ziX4ET58A_lEMQZ4yPwHI6fjVfwvcBYHZ8E0Jss9tdV53ew0CY3J2VwxNbwejQMyTEH3qZOSPuKvrxMXd02WWPfKAR1_AtFC9a8lYtAQJDSj64RwxTYIkSuMPG9btwtTZGLVXRhkyGPfmytr-sPDQw3EcSal12ShS6NbD30YqfbAgvpPQtw_ibb3EV9oc12w2ewfsqufQ/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?lng=en

 

Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html#42.2