Priest

Description This statuette depicts a man making an offering. He wears a mantle over his left shoulder, covering his lower body, and on his head is a stylized foliate wreath. His proper right hand holds a phiale, a shallow dish for pouring a libation, while his left hand may have once held an incense container

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [part 2, p. 6, no. 7]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902