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Belt with Ram's Heads and Palmettes
(Roman Empire )
This is an almost intact example of a Samnite warrior's belt; the attachment hooks are in the shape of animal heads with palmette bodies.
Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Italy, Capua (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 12 5/16 x W: 3 1/16 in. (31.2 x 7.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.142