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Hixenbaugh Ancient Art

Roman Marble Oscillum

Height: 11 3/8 in. (29 cm).

description

An ancient Roman marble oscillum, a disc suspended from a colonnade, carved in low relief with an ecstatic dancing maenad in  billowing drapery holding a thrysos on one side; a male figure with lantern and exaggerated phallus and purse next to an amphora on the other.

An oscillum is a double sided marble disc ornament typically suspended from the architrave of a building as decoration.