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Cast of a Roman relief in the Vatican Museum showing a bull being led by a young man towards an altar attended by two women (priestesses?) for sacrifice. Above are a series of festoons between bukrania (ox skulls).
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Cast SM SC58. Before conservation, July 2012. ©A.C. Cooper (colour) Limited
Cast of a Roman relief in the Vatican Museum showing a bull being led by a young man towards an altar attended by two women (priestesses?) for sacrifice. Above are a series of festoons between bukrania (ox skulls).
Plaster cast
Museum number: SC58
On display: Staircase - second to third floor (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Acquired by Soane from the architect Lewis Wyatt, 1834.
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