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The central raised tondo with representation of Minerva, wearing characteristic high crested and plumed helmet, seated before a flaming altar, the encircling band decorated with twin snakes, four profile heads and a Roman imperial eagle with wings outspread.

ø 21.6 x d. 6.8 cm

3rd century AD

Tinned Copper-Alloy

Provenance

Axel Guttmann Collection (R 134/ AG 598), Paris, acquired in 1996
Christie’s London South Kensington, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 1, London, 28th April 2004, lot 150
Acquired at Hermann Historica, Auction 56, Munich, 8th October 2008, lot 64

Publications

H. Born and M. Junkelmann, Römische Kampf- und Turnierrüstungen (Sammlung Axel Guttmann), Mainz, 1997, vol. 4, pp. 78-79,144-146 (Fig. 90-91),166, 198-201 (plates XXIX – XXXI), 209-215
Christie’s, The Axel Guttman Collection of Ancient Arms and Armours, Part 2, 28th April 2004, lot 150, p.148
Hermann Historica, Auction 56, Munich, October 2008, lot 64
R. D'Amato and D. Sumner, Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, from Marius to Commodus, 2009, 112-192 AD , p. 196, no. 286
M. Junkelmann, "Roman Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 260, fig.63
P. McDonnell-Staff, Ancient Warfare, Karwansaray Publishers, The Netherlands, 2013, vol. VI, issue 5, p. 23
"Roman Military Equipment", Roman Coins, , on-line, available on: http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEquipment-Shield.html

Exhibitions

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Roman Sculpture Gallery, Getty Villa, California, USA, 1st September 2017 — 1st October 2020
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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