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Ancient Art
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Explore image in Votive Stele to Saturn
2nd century A.D.
Limestone
75 × 42 × 10.2 cm (29 1/2 × 16 9/16 × 4 in.)
Gift of Ambassador and Mrs. William L. Eagleton, Jr., B.A. 1948
1984.79.1
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Roman, Tunisian
Period:
Roman (2nd century A.D.)
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Acquired near Siliana, Tunisia, by Kathleen Eagleton (née Flannigan) and Ambassador William L. Eagleton, Jr. (1926–2011); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1984.
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 1984,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 3 (Winter 1986): 80.
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), 255, no. 35, pl. 35.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
