Sucellus

1st-2nd century CE (Roman Imperial)

18.1 cm 42.2 cm 13.9 cm

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Sucellus (possibly meaning "The Good Striker") was a major Gaulish deity associated with the underworld, whose attributes include his wolf-skin garment, a mallet or hammer (now missing from his upraised hand), and a small jar called an "olla." This statuette is the earliest a...

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M. Brouse, Vienne, 1866, by excavation. Wills Collection Sale, by 1894; John Edward Taylor, 1894, by purchase; John Edward Taylor Collection sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, July 1912, no. 364 [illus.]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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