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Priest or Sacrificing Man
(Roman Empire )
This flat, schematic 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 now-missing proper right hand would have held a phiale, a shallow dish for pouring a libation, while the small object in his left hand is likely an incense container.
Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome (?); purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?); by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
Geographies
Roman Empire
(Place of Origin)
Italy (Etruria) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 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.
54.1080