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LOT 0751
Roman Bronze Eagle on Bull's Head Statuette
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (46.4 grams, 58 mm).
Comprising an altar with a severed head of a bull on the top and an eagle perching on it; hollow to the underside, four stub feet to the angles. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Footnotes
The image of an eagle on the severed head of a bull was probably connected with the cult of Jupiter Dolichenus.
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