Boar

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Title:	Boar
Start date:	-200
End date:	-1
Historical Period:	1st millennium B.C.
Description:	Statue of a male boar that has been woken by the approach of the hunter and frightened. The animal sits up on its front legs, Roman copy after an Hellenistic bronze original. The sculpture was discovered in Rome on the Esquiline in 1556.
Size:	0.95 m
Place:	Galleria degli Uffizi, Italy
Languages:	No linguistic content; Not applicable
Medium:	marble (rock)
Project:	BYZART Project
Fond:	UNIBO Europeana Archaeology
Physical type:	sculpture (visual works)
Material and technique:	sculpting
Data provider:	University of Bologna
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Appears in Collections:	BYZART