This statuette would have served as a votive gift to a god or goddess in a sanctuary or shrine. He carries a gift in each hand: perhaps a bird and an oval box. (David Gilman Romano and Irene Bald Romano, _Catalogue of the Classical Collections of the Glencairn Museum_, 1999, 4-5)
Sources:
- David Gilman Romano and Irene Bald Romano, _Catalogue of the Classical Collections of the Glencairn Museum_, 1999, 4-5.
- David Gilman Romano and Irene Bald Romano, _Greece and Rome: The Classic World: An Exhibit of Greek and Roman Artifacts_, Glencairn Museum, 1986, no. 33.
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