1964.12.9: Large Spindle-shaped Unguentarium
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1964.12.9
- Title
- Large Spindle-shaped Unguentarium
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 3rd-2nd century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Asia Minor
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/290311
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 16.1 x 7.4 cm (6 5/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin, New York, (by 1914), by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin, New York (1914-1964), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1964.
Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Godwin
- Accession Year
- 1964
- Object Number
- 1964.12.9
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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