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ROMAN BRONZE PAN PLAYING A SYRINX

The god of shepherds, herds and hunters, with upper human part and goat horns, legs and tail, holds a syrinx in his right hand, approaching his mouth, and his left hand he holds a logobolan (shepherd’s crook).
Cf. M. Kunze, Kunze M., Meisterwerke antiken bronzen und metallarbeiten aus der sammlung Borowski, Franz Phillip Rutzen, Germany, Mainz 2007, pp. 158-159, fig. C.24.

Ex German private collection (Z.C.) acquired betweeen 1970 and 1980.

1st-2nd Century AD

H. 5 1/8 in. (13.2 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2011, no. 44
NMG02
$37,500


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