DOCUMENTED PERSON · RECONSTRUCTION

Warrior of Edeta

A warrior recreated from the pottery of Edeta

This reconstruction brings together the arms and protections that appear on the Warriors' Vase.

Museum documentation · free public access, no account required.

Image of Warrior of Edeta — **DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS**
Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis
Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

This three-dimensional figure takes its cuirass, falcata, lance, and shield from the Warriors' Vase. The posture allows studying how the pieces were combined and how the balance changed when fighting or marching.

It has no name or historical biography. Its face, age, voice, and episode are documented fiction; the proportions of the weapons, clothing, and gestures are reviewed against the ancient image and other finds.

Evidence and interpretation

Documented fact: the model distinguishes attributes copied from the vase and archaeological comparisons. Interpretation and caution: completing in three dimensions a body represented in profile requires modern decisions that must not be confused with original evidence.

Catalogue facts

Narrative date: Narrative framework: centuries III–II BCE
Location: Edeta / Tossal de Sant Miquel, Llíria
Material: 3D Reconstruction · ceramic and archaeological sources
Context: Explicitly documented fictional character
Classification: Iberian collection or explicit interpretive resource
Visual reference: Museum of Prehistory of Valencia · documented detail of the frieze of Edeta

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: September 5, 2026.

A painted cuirass does not automatically reveal its material

The monograph on the Warriors' Vase retains the traditional term cuirass but warns it could be textile protection. The image does not allow ensuring that each small motif represents a metal scale. This caution must accompany the recreated figure: the three-dimensional model turns lines into volume and needs to choose materials that the vase does not always specify. Its usefulness is to show a hypothesis of clothing, not to close the debate. The fictional face and biography likewise do not turn the painted figure into an identified individual.

Museum · Valencia Museum of Prehistory · The Enigma of the Vase: Masterpiece of Iberian Art, Discussion of the CuirassAccess recorded: September 5, 2026.

Reference images and provenance

No verifiable entrance photograph is preserved for this representation. You may consult its documentation, but we would not present its face as an exact reconstruction.

Additional visual documentation

A cited publication does not establish which image was used to create the character.

Sources and references

Expand this information and consult its provenance

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