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LOT 0877
Romano-British Potter's Bowl Mould Fragment with Massacre by Lions
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/8 in. (695 grams total, 18 cm each).
Fragment of terracotta mould for a bowl, sidewall and rim with impressed decoration: horizontal bands to rim and equator delimiting two registers; upper: two ribbed columns angled to suggest toppling, with pelletted rings in the field, three running human figures and a leaping lion; lower: three sheep advancing towards bands of wavy lines and rings (to suggest vegetation?) with two leaping lions advancing towards them and a preying eagle above; supplied with a modern impression. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Suffolk, UK.
From an old English collection.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
The terracotta fragment represents a scene rarely seen in Roman art, the condemnation ad bestias, of criminals; the dating of the terracotta, between the 3rd and 4th century, could refer the scene to the last great persecution against Christians unleashed by Diocletian and Maximian in 303 AD.
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LOT 0877
Romano-British Potter's Bowl Mould Fragment with Massacre by Lions
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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