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LOT 0144

Estimate
GBP (£) 1,000 - 1,400
EUR (€) 1,160 - 1,620
USD ($) 1,340 - 1,880

ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A BOY IN ORIENTAL DRESS
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (14.6 grams, 61 mm).

Sitting with one leg extended and the other bent beneath the body, arms raised in supplication; loose fitting trousers and knee-length tunic gathered at the waist, boots on the feet and a separate pointed hood on the head; Scythian or similar costume.

PROVENANCE:
Private Swiss collection, acquired 2001.

LITERATURE:
See Jacobson, E., The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures at the Edge of the Hellenic World, Leiden, 1995, for discussion.

CONDITION
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