Bronze statuette of a ram, Hellenistic or Imperial, ca. 200 – 200, Cypriot, Bronze, H. 2 1/8 in. ( cm), Bronzes


Bronze statuette of a ram, Hellenistic or Imperial, ca. 200 – 200, Cypriot, Bronze, H. 2 1/8 in. ( cm), Bronzes, The ram had been used as the symbol on the coinage of the kings of Salamis in the late sixth and fifth centuries But it also had a wider significance in the Cypriot countryside, where pastoralism was an important element in the way of life


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