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LOT 0144
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.
ProvenancePrivate Swiss collection, acquired 2001.
LiteratureSee Jacobson, E., The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures at the Edge of the Hellenic World, Leiden, 1995, for discussion.
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LOT 0144
Roman Bronze Figure of a Boy in Oriental Dress
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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