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LOT 0102
Etruscan Bronze Votive Figure of Genius Sacrificulus
6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
4 3/4 in. (5 1/4 in.) (189 grams, 12.1 cm (367 grams total, 13.4 cm high including)).
Depicting a ‘genius’ making a sacrifice, his head surrounded by a radiate crown or a wreath of laurel leaves arranged in rays; bare-chested with a cloak (tebenna) falling over his left shoulder, covering his back and resting on his left arm, enveloping his legs to below the knee; holding a patera in his right hand and an acerra in his left; accompanied by a display stand.
Provenance
Anne Betgoner, Paris, by descent.
French private collection, acquired in the early 20th century.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Private collection, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.13235-251199.
Literature
Cf. Cook, B.F., ‘Two Etruscan Bronze Statuettes’ in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, volume 1, 1968, pp. 167-170, fig.4-6, for a comparable example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Footnotes
The figure represents a genius dressed as a priest according to the Etruscan tradition. He is celebrating a sacrifice by offering to the gods with a patera of precious liquids and perfumes, kept in the acerra or pyxis. Acerra was the name given to the casket in which the incense intended for sacrifices was placed (arcula turalis). A servant carried it to the altar, and the granules from the casket were scattered on the flames (acerra libare).
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