Inv. n°: MMoCA322

Roman Bronze Open Work Applique of Ajax and Cassandra

Amid tendrils, the Greek hero Ajax drags Cassandra, the hapless daughter of King Priam, by the hair from the temple of Athena where she had led for asylum (a famous scene from the Iliad).

Ø 13.5 cm

1st century AD

Bronze

Provenance

  • Ex American private collection
  • Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries from Gorny & Mosh sale, Munich (Germany), 16th December 2008, lot 21
  • Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 24th June 2009, GMX03

Publications

  • Gorny & Mosh Sale, Munich, 2008-12-16, p. 30, lot 21
  • J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2010, vol. XXI, p. 39, fig. 80

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
  • Le banquet: de Marseille à Rome, plaisir et jeux de pouvoir, Musée d’Archéologie Mediterranéenne,Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France, 3rd December 2016 — 17th June 2017

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