Faucet or Spigot in the Form of a Bearded Male Head

ca. 2nd century A.D.

Medium: Bronze, hollow cast and solid cast in several pieces
Dimensions: 2 3/16 × 2 3/16 × 1 1/2 in. (5.5 × 5.5 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ruth Elizabeth White
Accession Number: 1988.80.25
Culture: Roman, Gallo-Roman
Period: Roman, ca. 2nd century A.D.
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

Ruth Elizabeth White; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1988.

Bibliography

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 275, no. 76, pl. 76

Mimi Gardner Gates, "Director's Report 1988," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Spring 1989), 118

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