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Sacrificing youth
Sacrificing youth

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 view
ClassificationsSculpture
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).
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