Museo Gregoriano Etrusco

Vatican, Rome

Graziani putto (early 2nd century BC)

This hollow-cast bronze figure of a baby boy takes its name from the fact that it was once in the Graziani collection.   It was found in 1587 at Sanguinetto on Lake Trasimeno.  The baby holds a bird in his right hand and a ball in his left.  An inscription on his right leg identifies the bronze as an offering to the local divinity, Tec Sans, a local deity that protected children.   The figure is illustrated in the Museum website.

A smaller bronze figure of this kind that was excavated in 1934 at the presumed site of a temple in nearby Magione is exhibited (with other votive statues from this site) in the Museo Archeologico, Perugia. 

Other Exhibits from Umbria

See the separate pages on:

• Mars of Todi; and

• Finds from Ocriculum.