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Fragmentary Votive Figurine of a Warrior
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Upper part of a flat lead figurine of a warrior facing left. Only the head with crested helmet, the shield, and the thigh of one leg survive. The round shield has a star pattern inside a broad border. The plain back of the figurine suggests that it was cast in a one-sided mold.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Humfry Payne Collection (?-1936) England. [Galerie Gunter Puhze Freiburg Germany 2001] sold; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (2001-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Fragmentary Votive Figurine of a Warrior
Description:
Upper part of a flat lead figurine of a warrior facing left.
Only the head with crested helmet, the shield, and the thigh of one leg survive.
The round shield has a star pattern inside a broad border.
The plain back of the figurine suggests that it was cast in a one-sided mold.
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