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Bronze Offering Box and Key in the Getty Villa, July 2008
Title: Offering Box (Arca) and Key
Artist/Maker: Unknown
Culture: Gallo-Roman
Places: Roman Empire (Place Created), Eastern Gaul (France), France (Place Found)
Date: about A.D. 130–180
Medium: Bronze
Object Number: 95.AC.29
Dimensions: 51 cm (20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman
Alternate Title: Offering Box and Key (Display Title)
Department: Antiquities
Classification: Vessels
Object Type: Key
Resting on a base supported by lions' paws, this bronze arca or offering box takes the form of a miniature hexagonal structure. A roof composed of six curved sections surmounts the six joined panels forming the body. A cutting on the top of the roof served as a deposit slot, and traces on either side of this slot show that a statuette originally stood on the top of the offering box. In order to empty the box, a small door on one side opened with a key. This offering box is said to have been found in France, in the Roman province of Gaul, along with the Pair of Portrait Busts and the Statuette of Mars/Cobannus. These pieces were probably displayed together in a local shrine of the Iuventus, a Roman youth organization. The offering box may have held the monthly dues of the members.
Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29623/unknown-maker-offering-box-arca-and-key-gallo-roman-about-ad-130-180
Artist/Maker: Unknown
Culture: Gallo-Roman
Places: Roman Empire (Place Created), Eastern Gaul (France), France (Place Found)
Date: about A.D. 130–180
Medium: Bronze
Object Number: 95.AC.29
Dimensions: 51 cm (20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman
Alternate Title: Offering Box and Key (Display Title)
Department: Antiquities
Classification: Vessels
Object Type: Key
Resting on a base supported by lions' paws, this bronze arca or offering box takes the form of a miniature hexagonal structure. A roof composed of six curved sections surmounts the six joined panels forming the body. A cutting on the top of the roof served as a deposit slot, and traces on either side of this slot show that a statuette originally stood on the top of the offering box. In order to empty the box, a small door on one side opened with a key. This offering box is said to have been found in France, in the Roman province of Gaul, along with the Pair of Portrait Busts and the Statuette of Mars/Cobannus. These pieces were probably displayed together in a local shrine of the Iuventus, a Roman youth organization. The offering box may have held the monthly dues of the members.
Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29623/unknown-maker-offering-box-arca-and-key-gallo-roman-about-ad-130-180
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