Sword from an Equestrian Statue

1st century (Roman Imperial)

70.2 cm 9.4 cm 3.2 cm

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This sheathed sword was part of a Roman imperial monument that included a gilded bronze equestrian statue. The gilded bronze horse head nearby may have come from the same monument.

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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