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An ancient Roman marble oscillum, a disc suspended from a colonnade, with a dancing maenad with thrysos and billowing drapery on one side and a nude male figure with lantern and exaggerated phallus on the other.
Ca. 1st century AD.
An oscillum is a double sided marble disc ornament typically suspended from the architrave of a building as decoration.
cf. British Museum, inv. no. 1805,0703.215; J. B. Ward-Perkins & A. Claridge, Pompeii AD 79, Royal Academy of Arts, (London, 1976), p. 83, no. 82.
Formerly in a Paris private collection.
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