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Further to Susan Mazur's most useful list of material from Cleveland, I
note that the bronze Victory with cornucopia appears in my discussion of
material from the Getty which appeared in my review article of the Getty
Masterpieces in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (1998)
<http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/98.6.08.html>:

 

One of my favourite provenances relates to the bronze relief of "Two
Togate Magistrates" (85.AB.109) (p. 115) which although without even an
alleged find-spot, "traveled through the art market and [was]
conceivably found with [three other bronzes]" (The Gods Delight, no.
63). In fact two of the associated pieces are fellow Masterpieces, a
Roma (or Virtus) (84.AB.671) (p. 113), and a goddess (either Venus,
Ceres or Juno) (84.AB.670) (p. 112), and the third, a Victory with a
Cornucopia, is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art (The Gods Delight nos.
64-66). Perhaps scholarship will never know if these pieces were found
together, or merely shared the same packing-case as they crossed an
international frontier.

 

If a winged Victory flew across international frontiers to land in
Cleveland, where does this leave the three pieces in the Getty?

 

1.	Cleveland 1984.25:
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8538
2.	Malibu 85.AB.109:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=12934 
3.	Malibu 84.AB.671:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=12859 
4.	Malibu 84.AB.670:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=12858

 

DG

 

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Dr David W.J. Gill

Department of Classics, Ancient History & Egyptology

University of Wales Swansea

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