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LOT 0076
'The Guttmann' Large Greek Bronze Funerary Situla
7TH CENTURY B.C.
10 1/4 in. (1.56 kg, 26.2 cm).
Formed with a single-piece bottom and two-piece body riveted together; the underside recessed, sidewall flared with a carination at the shoulder and rolled rim; attachment point for handles at the seams below the shoulder and to the inner face of the rim; small repair panel to the inner face.
Provenance
Ex Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Germany [1944-2001], AG 490.
Private collection, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the relevant pages where this situla is published.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13059-248969.
Published
Born, H. and Hansen, S., Fruhgriechische Bronzehelme: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, IX, Mainz, 2001, (AG 490), p.32.
Literature
Cf. similar situla in the Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Roma, and others in Giuliani-Pomes M.V., ‘Cronologia delle situle rinvenute in Etruria’ in Studi Etruschi,volume 23, 1957, pp.149-188, figs.1,2,3,6,7-8.
Footnotes
The situla (type A of the Giuliani-Pomes classification) comes from a funerary complex that may have also included a geometric helmet with a horse protome. A very similar example comes from the Bernardini Tomb in Palestrina, now in the Archaeological Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome.
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