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Mars Ultor
(Roman Empire )
The bearded, armored figure represented here is Mars Ultor, or Mars the Avenger. This statuette is one of a number of small-scale copies of this statue type, which is represented in colossal form by the marble statue of Mars Ultor currently in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, no. 31 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Roman Empire (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 5 9/16 in. (14.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.1073