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Name of Object:

Tantur (woman's headdress)

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”

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Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini”

Date of Object:

End of the 18th century

Author:

Druse dress (Syria), druse manufacture

Inventory Number:

inv. 23763

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Silver laminate decorated with embossed work

Dimensions:

7,90 x 46,00

Provenance:

Syria

Description:

The Tantur is an example of cultural tradition developed inside the contaminations typical of the Mediterranean world. It is decorated with symbolic images of leaves, flowers and animals and it is engraved with the year of Egira, 1172. Its cylindrical shape is reminiscent of an asherah, one of the emblems of the Phoenician goddess of fertility Astarte (the Siriac Atargotis), often represented with cylindrical headgear. The origins in terms of scientific activity and conservation of Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini" in Rome, can be traced back to the foundation in 1875 of the "Royal National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography in Rome" within the buildings of the Roman College.

Citation of this web page:

Vito Lattanzi, Marina Minozzi "Tantur (woman's headdress)" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;238;en

Prepared by: Vito Lattanzi, Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 097

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