LOT 1272 Roman Stepping Horse Statuette
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2nd century AD. A bronze statuette of a stepping horse, advancing with one foreleg raised and bent, incised stylised bridle details to the head, notched mane. See Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 246. 38 grams, 43mm high (1 3/4"). Ex important Dutch collection; acquired on the European art market in the 1970s. In the Classical period, large and small statuettes were primarily religious in nature. Bronze horse or horse-and-rider statuettes were typically placed on the tops of columns set up at sanctuaries by the animal's owner in commemoration of one or more victories in the horse races held at the Panhellenic sanctuaries of Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, and Nemea. This practice continued in Hellenistic and Roman times, when other uses were also possible for such small sculptures of a horse, such as votive offerings at shrines. A similar statuette has been recently found by the Bulgarian Archaeologists in the fortress of Rusokastro, in Southeast Bulgaria, and various specimens have been found in the Balkan regions, which may be the place of production of such statuettes.
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