Currently not on view
Dwarf Warrior,
1st century BCE–1st century CE
Late Hellenistic
y1979-56
Information
Title
Dwarf Warrior
Dates
1st century BCE–1st century CE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
5.0 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm (1 15/16 x 1 7/16 x 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1979-56
Period
Materials
Previously in the Michael Ayreton Collection; purchased from Charles Ede, London, in 1979.
- Stephanie Boucher, Recherches sur les Bronzes Figures de Gaule Pre-Romaine et Romaine, (Rome: École française de Rome, 1976)., cat. no. 429, pl. 86: and p. 264 - escact renaissance copy of ancient type of armed pygmie (adapted to novel composition on a lid) and see footnote p. 264, no. 6 for further bibliography for this type.
- Catalogue 113: antiquities, (London: Charles Ede Ltd., 1979)., no. 2
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1979," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 39, no. 1/2 (1980): p. 40-63., p. 49
