Handle of a Pail

1st century BCE-4th century CE L: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm) Citation Source image

This swinging handle, decorated with a leaf pattern in relief, displays snake's heads at the ends. The two holders, with rings at the tops, have faces in relief on the sides.

Artifact

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13785
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object
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provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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Terms

Medium
bronze
Genre
handles

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