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Fragment of a relief slab depicting Victory sacrificing a bull. Only the lower part of the head and face, the body to below the waist, part of the right arm and right wing remain.
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Fragment of a relief slab depicting Victory sacrificing a bull. Only the lower part of the head and face, the body to below the waist, part of the right arm and right wing remain.
27 BC-14 AD
Probably Augustan
Probably Augustan
Moulded terracotta
Height: 15cm
Width: 16cm
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Width: 16cm
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Museum number: M806
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 463
On display: Dome Area
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Curatorial note
Fragment of a Group IV: Cresting Plaque.
Examining the similar reassembled example in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome1 and dated to the Augustan period (27 BC-14 AD), this scene can be reconstructed and described as follows: below a moulding a nude winged Victory, with her hair bound by a fillet, kneels on the back of a recumbent bull turned to the right and draws back its head; her right hand, hanging down, holds a sacrificial knife. In front of the bull is a candelabrum on which burns a flame.
1The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome: The sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, ed. H.S. Jones, Oxford, 1926, p. 337, GALL. SUP., no. 15, pl. 123.
Examining the similar reassembled example in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome1 and dated to the Augustan period (27 BC-14 AD), this scene can be reconstructed and described as follows: below a moulding a nude winged Victory, with her hair bound by a fillet, kneels on the back of a recumbent bull turned to the right and draws back its head; her right hand, hanging down, holds a sacrificial knife. In front of the bull is a candelabrum on which burns a flame.
1The British School at Rome, Catalogue of ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome: The sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, ed. H.S. Jones, Oxford, 1926, p. 337, GALL. SUP., no. 15, pl. 123.
Provenance
See Vermeule 459.
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