For the big head, they used a small terra-cotta vase-head that—ironically—is now owned by the Met. And for the second standing warrior, they used a photograph of a figure on an Etruscan ...

The detail carved into the sole of a shoe. Think about, said Seán O’Harrow, the attention craftsmen put into the famed Terracotta Warriors that they carved a realistic shoe sole on a statue of ...

When the 6th century B.C.E. effigy was uncovered in a necropolis in Cerveteri in 1881, it fed into a resurgent interest in the Etruscans. One glance at the terracotta tomb and it’s easy to see why.