Large bronze can be used with dented turned floor. Spherical belly, short round standing neck and strongly protruding horizontal edge, flattened on the outside. Thick, rounded ear ending in a woman's head with lion's head cap (Omphale?) On an attache that ends in a palm. On the ear a temple between cypresses, an altar, a cornucopia directed downwards, a fruit basket and an altar. At the top the ear ends in bird heads that lie around mouth. Import from Italia. Greenish patina slightly damaged. Pleyte thought: Dionysuskop. Stuart says Herculeskop. Nuber, says Omphale. Nuber says (23-4-1970) that
Large bronze can be used with dented turned floor. Spherical belly, short round standing neck and strongly protruding horizontal edge, flattened on the outside. Thick, rounded ear ending in a woman's head with lion's head cap (Omphale?) On an attache that ends in a palm. On the ear a temple between cypresses, an altar, a cornucopia directed downwards, a fruit basket and an altar. At the top the ear ends in bird heads that lie around mouth. Import from Italia. Greenish patina slightly damaged. Pleyte thought: Dionysuskop. Stuart says Herculeskop. Nuber, says Omphale. Nuber says (23-4-1970) that the decoration is after-Flavian. Hercules in combination with the temple decoration is reminiscent of Elst., Crockery, can, metal, bronze, height: 22 cm, roman 1-100 AD, Netherlands, Limburg, Mook and Mediator, Mook
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