Two Etruscan bronze votive shield bosses with rams' heads
Circa 6th Century B.C.
Each with a frontal ram's head with long nose, wrinkled muzzle and wide lips, with ribbed spiral horns and small pointed ears, the fleece detailed at the neck and back of head, 7cm and 7.2cm high注脚Provenance:
Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, Bern.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above in the 1970s.
with Dr Christoph F. Leon, Basel in April 1996.

For a comparable Etruscan ram's head, which also served as the centrepiece of a small votive shield, see M. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Art Boston, Boston, 1971, p. 483, no. 711.