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Figurine

Object Number:48-2-251
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Roman
Provenience: Italy
Genoa
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Metal
Iconography:Deity
Height: 9.6 cm
Width: 2.8 cm
Depth: 1.9 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number:235 - Collector Number
L-2-199 - Old Loan Number

Description

Deity. Cleaned to metal in 1966. Complete figure except tips of ears and horn. Figure, standing erect, clutches staff with a knob-like finial in both hands. Staff runs from ankles to shoulders. Head is that of a goat with one long curved horn on the top of the head. Long tight fitting garment has no details.

Bibliography:

[Book] Warden, P. G. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 30, no. 63, pl. 5View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Thesis] Moore, Charlotte B. 1969. Description and analysis of the bronze and lead objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 243-244, no. 249; p. 382, fig. 182View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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