2008 © Maxim Tabachnik
Votive Male Figurine with Shield
This bronze votive figure (9th–8th cc.) shows a nude male standing upright and holding a circular shield before his body. Such small bronzes served as offerings in local sanctuaries, linking human petitioners with protective deities. The combination of nudity and weaponry reveals how martial strength and fertility merged in ideals of male virtue.
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