*AN ETRUSCAN LEAD VOTIVE FIGURE. Ca. 5th-4th century BCE H. 10,5 cm Provenance Old private collection, Switzerland, between 1980s-1990s This votive miniature figure depicts a newborn baby in a swaddling. The chest adorned with a neckace and a bulla (?). Standing on its base. Recent studies associate these ex-votos with the cult of the mother goddess Matuta, whose oldest known temple was located in the Forum Boarium in Rome and was destroyed in 506 BCE. (see: MATER MATUTA, ‘FERTILITY CULTS’ AND THE INTEGRATION OF WOMEN IN RELIGIOUS LIFE IN ITALY IN THE FOURTH TO FIRST CENTURIES BC, Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 87 , October 2019 , pp. 1 - 45) For Swiss buyers, VAT applies to the hammer price and buyer's premium (only for the lots with the * mention)