Base with plane-tree branches and bucrania
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Base with plane-tree branches and bucrania
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Published 2017-03-27T17:38:06+00:00
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The finely made base is decorated with a relief of interwoven plane tree branches, surmounted by bucrania (ox skulls). The rectangular setting on the base's upper surface suggests that it was used as a plinth for a statue, perhaps of Hercules. In the area of its discovery, there was probably an open-air sanctuary dedicated to the hero, for whom the plane tree was sacred. Is dated back to the Augustan period.
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| Date published | 27/03/2017 |
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| Title | Base with plane-tree branches and bucrania |
| Date | Between I century BC and I century AD |
| Accession | inv. 417 |
| Period | Augustan period |
| Medium | Marble from Luni |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | National Roman Museum |
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