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Source Description
This schematic statuette fragment represents the upper body of a man making an offering. He wears a mantle over his left shoulder, and on his head is a stylized foliate wreath. His now-missing proper right hand would have held a phiale, a shallow dish for pouring a libation.
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Document identity
localId
19925
label
Priest or Sacrificing Man
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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3
Source metadata
id
19925
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Priest or Sacrificing Man
description
This schematic statuette fragment represents the upper body of a man making an offering. He wears a mantle over his left shoulder, and on his head is a stylized foliate wreath. His now-missing proper right hand would have held a phiale, a shallow dish for pouring a libation.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
3rd-1st century BC (Hellenistic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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Metal
statuettes (statues)
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3
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3
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)
Source extras
cul
Etruscan
med
bronze
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6291
6191
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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11ecbee6547183f6
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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166c2d8a32e89b7c
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no
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no
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3
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photo
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f0ed53ebbe7d1d6c
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no
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no