Warrior Votive Statuette

SculptureIberian5th-2nd century BCE

Warrior Votive Statuette

late 5th-2nd century BCE

Classification

Sculpture

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Leaded bronze

Culture

Iberian

Period

Iron Age

Century

5th-2nd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

8.2 x 2 x 1.3 cm (3 1/4 x 13/16 x 1/2 in.)

Provenance

National Archaeological Museum of Spain, (by 1933), by exchange; to the Fogg Art Museum. Excavated at the sanctuary site of Collado de los Jardines, Jaén, in the early 1900s. Note: In exchange for a Sepulchral slab from the Cemetery at Sahagun, Leon, Spain (formerly accession number 1926.20.)

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