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Heavy, partly hollow-cast bronze with a bust of portrait of the Roman Goddess Juno. The solid head of the youthfully portrayed Goddess wears a laurel wreath and a diadem, the elaborate hairstyle ending in two braids. Three smaller holes on the crown (to attach adornments ?) and a heavy suspension ring. The curved sheathing box has four larger attachment holes.

h. 38.5 x w. 29 cm

c. 1st century BC - 2nd century AD

Bronze

Provenance

Ex Axel Guttmann Collection, Berlin, acquired in Freiburg
Acquired at Hermann Historica, Auction 58, Munich, 7th October 2009, lot 208

Publications

Hermann Historica, Auction 58, Munich, 7th October 2009, lot 208
M. Junkelmann, "Roman Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 249, fig. 44
in K. Schörle (ed.), L'armée romaine la puissance et la gloire, Arles, 2018, p. 106, fig. 50
Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, March/April 2019, vol. 30, no. 2, p. 10, fig. 10

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
L’armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire, Musée de départemental de l’Arles antique, Arles, France, 15th December 2018 — 22nd April 2019

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Roman Bronze Attachment from a Ship

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