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Priest of Bel and His Attendant

CultureRoman
Date3rd century C.E.
MediumLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 × 25 5/8 × 7 inches (44.45 × 65.1 × 17.78 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number65-2
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 105
Collections
Provenance

With Marguerite Mallon, Hotel Hassler, Rome, by 1965;

 

Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1965.

Published References

Donald Hoffmann, “Voices from Palmyra, Frozen in Stone,” The Kansas City Star, January 9, 1966.

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 55.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 385, no. 334.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 124.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 20, fig. 52.

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