Romano-Celtic Bronze Statuette of God Sucellos

2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.

2 3/4 in. (36.7 grams, 69 mm).

Modelled in the round with luxuriant hair and beard, bare-chested with a short kilt and belt; left arm extended straight and right arm bent upwards. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Literature

Cf. Boucher, S. & Tassinari, S., Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine à Lyon: Bronzes Antiques I. Inscriptions, Statuaire, Vaisselle, Lyon, 1976, item 120, for a more elaborate example of the type.

Footnotes

Sucellos was the Gaulish strong-man deity, usually shown with a hammer in his raised hand and a pot in the other.

CONDITION

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