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LOT 0179
Roman Bronze Eagle on Bull's Head
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (129 grams, 70 mm).
Modelled in the round figure of a bull's head (bucranium) with an eagle with folded wings perched on the horns; hollow to the underside.
Provenance
Acquired by a Swiss family in the mid-1980s to late 1990s, thence by descent.
Private collection, Switzerland, since the late 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Speidel, M.P., 'Eagle-bearer and trumpeter' in Bonner Jahrbucher, 176, 1976, pp.123-163.
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