Context (Other owners)
Accession Register notes that this donation was given by Lady Smith Woodward in 'memory of Sir Arthur Smith Woodward'. Palaeontologist Sir Arthur Smith Woodward (1864-1944) was Keeper of the Geological Department of the British Museum from 1901-1924, and this is likely to be his widow, Maud Leanora Ida Smith Woodward, nee Seeley.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1944.58 [A-F]: '?Votive tablets of pottery, in various forms, e.g. eyes, ears, a recumbent human figure (? in a bath), apples or pomegranates. Said to be Etruscan'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Accession Register: 'Said to be Etruscan'
Event Date 1944
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1944.58 [A-F]: 'Clay votive tablets.'
Event Date 1944
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1944.58 [A-F]: '2 ears; 2 eyes; 2 apples or pomegranates; 2 sausage shaped objects; one figure in ?bath - bath has hole through edge at head end; 1 boar with some damage to left side of head.'
Event Date 25/10/2000
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1944.58 [A-F]: 'The 'sausage shaped' objects may be beans or peas in a pod.'
Event Date 4/4/2013
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Terracotta of coarse buff fabric with dark patina in shape of a standing boar. Some old chipping all over as well as a modern scratch on the left side of the head.
Event Date 19/3/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung