Inv. n°: MMoCA769

Roman Marble Relief of a Wild Mountain Sheep

In his last throe and exhaustion, his lolling tongue and near-closed eyes marking the end, the horizontal spear-shaft broken and jutting through his shoulder, the bait has served its usefulness.

h. 17 x w. 63 cm

2nd century AD

Marble

Provenance

  • Ex collection Wendell Cherry
  • Ex collection Mark Lansburgh
  • Ex collection S. B., San Diego, California

Publications

  • Santa Barbara Museum, 2000 Years of Sculpture - From the Classical Age to the Baroque - Collection of Mark Lansburgh, USA, 1977, no. 2
  • C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 70 and 101
  • C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique. Le bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, France, 2016, p. 58, fig. 59 and p. 90

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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