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LOT 0104
Roman Silver Statuette of Cybele
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (14.01 grams, 34 mm).
Modelled in the round wearing a floor-length palla draped over her head and over her robe, with staff (broken) in her left hand and patera in her right; thick dorsal loop.
Provenance
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
See similar images of Cybele with patera in Nankov, 'Toward the Thracian Religion in the Early Hellenistic Period: a terracotta figurine of Kybele from Seuthopolis reconsidered' in Archaeologia Bulgarica, 3, 2007, Sofia, pp.47-67, figs.11,13,18.
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