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| ROMAN IRON AND BRONZE LIDDED ARYBALLOS: APHRODITE ANADYOMENE As a child, wringing her hair and riding a dolphin, serving as the bronze cover. The spherical body is of iron and the chains and lid of bronze. Part of an athlete’s ablution set. Possibly a unique, playful extension of the myth. Cf. Ian Jenkins, Greek and Roman Life, London, 1986, p. 48, fig. 57; Enrica Pozzi et al., Le Collezioni del Museo Nazionale di Napoli, Roma, 1986, p. 178, no. 45. Ex English private collection, acquired in the early 1990s. 2nd-3rd Century AD H. without chain 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) GMZ15 $12,500 Sales |
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