Tantur (woman's headdress)
Rome, Italy
National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”
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Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini”
End of the 18th century
Druse dress (Syria), druse manufacture
inv. 23763
Silver laminate decorated with embossed work
7,90 x 46,00
Syria
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.
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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