- Margherita Gilda Scarpellini –
Figure 57.7a–c Warrior from Brolio (550 bc). Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.
Inv. no. 562 (Archivio fotografi co Istituzione Culturale ed Educativa Castiglionese, Castiglion
Fiorentino, Arezzo). Female armed fi gure from Brolio (550 bc). Florence, Museo Archeologico
Nazionale. Inv. no. 561 (Archivio fotografi co Istituzione Culturale ed Educativa Castiglionese,
Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo). Statuettes of deer from Brolio (560–550 bc). Florence, Museo
Archeologico Nazionale. Inv. nos. 558 and 559 (Archivio fotografi co Istituzione Culturale ed
Educativa Castiglionese, Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo).In 1746, we have another extraordinary discovery, also near Castiglion Fiorentino, at
Montecchio. It consists of splendid bronzes of the Hellenistic period (third–second
century bc), produced in an Etruscan workshop in the north, perhaps in Arezzo, and
probably part of a votive deposit belonging to a nearby sanctuary. The group consists of
a thymiaterion (incense burner), a shovel, a female worshipper with a triangular diadem, a
young boy with a duck, and a female worshipper with a patera.^27
The fi nds became part of the collection of a nobleman at Cortona, Galeotto Ridolfi ni
Corazzi, and in the early nineteenth century they were sold by Jean Emile Humbert
to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, where they remain today. Two of these
bronzes, the thymiaterion and the statuette of the child with the duck (Figure 57.8) are
interesting because of the Etruscan dedicatory inscription to the goddess Tufl tha,^28 a deity
perhaps linked to the sphere of fertility and the protection of childhood.^29