Two Etruscan terracotta votive wombs
Circa 4th-2nd Century B.C.
Each of hollow form, one flat-backed, modelled on one side with a medial ridge with additional vertical ridges and nodule shaped protrusions, with two openings; the other modelled in curved ridged relief, with an opening at the bottom and side, 18cm and 17.2cm long respectively (2)注脚Provenance:
Private collection, New Mexico, acquired prior to 1991.

The larger womb with nodules is considered to represent a multiparous uterus, i.e. that of a woman who has given birth multiple times (N. Thomson de Grummond and E. Simon, The Religion of the Etruscans, Texas, 2009, p. 104).