Object Details
Catalogue Number | 36 |
Inventory Number | 71.AD.220 |
Typology | Relief |
Location | Taranto region |
Dimensions | H: 5.8 cm; W: 8 cm |
Fabric
Beige in color; hard, purified, and friable, with foil gilding.
Condition
Intact, surface worn.
Provenance
– 1969, Fallani (Rome, Italy); 1971, Royal Athena Galleries (New York, NY), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1971.
Bibliography
Selected Works 1971, no. 62; Kingsley 1976, p. 14, fig. 41; Lullies 1977, pp. 247–51, no. 3.
Description
The bull is depicted heading to the left with its head tilted in three-quarter view. The left front hoof is raised, and the back right hoof extends forward; the tail curves around full circle. There is a hole pierced through at the bull’s neck. A comparable example was found in Tomb 1 in Contrada Tesoro in Taranto.1
Notes
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See D. Graepler’s cat. entry in De Juliis 1984, pp. 393–96, no. 29; and Leyenaar-Plaisier 1979, p. 82, no. 165, pl. 28. ↩