- Helen Nagy –
Figure 54.1 Striding female fi gure, “Tanagra type.” Inv. No. 8–2512. Photo: author. Courtesy of the
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.Figure 54.2 “Apollo from Veii.” Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia. Photograph courtesy of the
Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale.in a matrix; these tend to be of high quality (Fig. 54.4a–b). Heads are often produced
separately and attached after fi ring (Fig. 54.5).^6 Larger fi gurines with outstretched arms
will have these limbs separately molded. They may be fi red together with the body, or
attached after fi ring.^7 It is common to have matrices made from an existing fi gurine with
a resulting reduction of 20 per cent in size. Fig. 54.6 features two heads one generation
apart. The head ornament on the smaller head has been altered and the earrings omitted to
produce variety. The earrings on the larger head may have been taken from a mold made
for casting gold earrings.^8 Some fi gurines from Veii exist in as many as four generations.^9