Relief "Bell" with Atis and Cybele. Ancient Rome,... Lot 39
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Relief "Bell" with Atis and Cybele. Ancient Rome, 1st century BC approx.
Terracotta.
Intact.
Provenance: Collection of the Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1938) / J. Bagot Archaeological Gallery, Barcelona, 2015.
Thermoluminescence test (TL) attached.
Exhibited in Zuloaga's house-museum, located in the town of Zumaya (Guipúzcoa).
Measurements: 13.5 x 13 cm.
This fragment of relief probably belonged to a larger funerary relief. Two figures are depicted: a woman with a himation and her hair tied back, accompanied by a child (Atis) wearing a Phrygian cap on his head.
The woman depicted is the goddess Cybele, considered the mother goddess, riding in a chariot drawn by lions, part of which is possibly depicted on the missing fragment. Cybele had a son named Atis, whom she abandoned, but when she met him she fell in love with him.
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