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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.1.123
Title
Stamp with Running Rabbit and Hare
Classification
Artists' Tools
Work Type
stamp
Date
400 - 550 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa
Period
Roman Imperial period, Late, to Early Byzantine
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/144750

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Mold-made
Dimensions
4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
1.5 cm (9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
English collection (by 1980) sold; to [Jeffrey Spier, Ancient Coins and Antiquities, NY, 1980-1982] sold; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1982-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.1.123
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Double-ended terracotta stamp, with a representation of a running rabbit or hare at each end. The animals are very similar, but one is larger and may have been intended to represent a hare, with the smaller animal a rabbit. The animals are stylized. On one end, the ears are broken off.

Publication History

  • John J. Herrmann Jr. and Annewies van den Hoek, Light from the Age of Augustine. Late Antique Ceramics from North Africa (Tunisia) (Cambridge MA, 2002), 25, no. 12

Exhibition History

  • Light from the Age of Augustine: Late Antique Ceramics from North Africa (Tunisia), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Cambridge, 04/03/2002 - 06/24/2002; Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 06/01/2003 - 12/31/2003; Knights of Columbus Museum, New Haven, 03/27/2004 - 04/16/2005

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