Votive marble stele to Zeus Cyzicus (Asia Minor), 1st century...

Votive marble stele to Zeus
Cyzicus (Asia Minor), 1st century BC; height cm 53; Dedicated by a Roman named Felix, depicting a large figure of Zeus Calaxios (God of Cyzicus) holding scepter and patera. The scene consisting of a tree, an altar (decorated with a small figure sacrificing a bull), and an eagle at the feet of the god; around the tree, a snake coils up towards the patera; behind the altar, two worshippers; ex BFA, Auction 36, lot 84; Property of a London gentleman; acquired in the late 1970s and 1980s.