Sacrificing youth
2nd century B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsItaly
Medium/TechniqueBronze
DimensionsHeight: 19.4 cm (7 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Horace L. Mayer
Accession number1974.582
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to have been dredged up from Lake Nemi with a group of bronzes and to be from the shrine of Diana at Lake Nemi; by 1908: with Spink & Son, Ltd., 5, 6 & 7 King Street, St. James's, London, S.W. 1; by 1913: Captain E. G. Spencer-Churchill Collection; by 1965: with Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd., 8 King Street, St. James's, London S1 (Christie's auction, June 23, 1965, lot 506, repeating the provenance of Lake Nemi); by 1966: Horace L. Mayer Collection (loaned to MFA as 502.66); by 1974: Mrs. Horace L. Mayer Collection: gift of Mrs. Horace L. Mayer to MFA, December 27, 1974.
The provenance from Lake Nemi has been question by Martin Bentz in Etruskische Votivbronzen des Hellenismus (1992).
The provenance from Lake Nemi has been question by Martin Bentz in Etruskische Votivbronzen des Hellenismus (1992).
12th century B.C.
late 7th–early 8th century
late 19th century
Late 19th century
1991–1784 B.C.
about 540–520 B.C.
about 500 B.C.
664–332 B.C.
about 210–170 B.C.
about 350–300 B.C.
Late 4th–early 3rd century B.C.
about 500 B.C.