Belt with Ram's Heads and Palmettes

first half 4th century BCE (Late Classical-early Hellenistic)

7.7 cm 31.2 cm

Citation

This is an almost intact example of a Samnite warrior's belt; the attachment hooks are in the shape of animal heads with palmette bodies.

Artifact

id	id 31984
contentType	contentType object
stage	stage normalized
provenance	provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
rightsUri	rightsUri CC0
language	language en
pageCount	pageCount 0
source	source import

Source image fields (2)

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sourceUrl	https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.142

Culture

Samnite

Medium

bronze

Genre

belts (costume accessories)

createdBy

Italic

inCollection

Roman Empire