1920.44.3: Fragment of a Relief - Male Body
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.3
- Title
- Fragment of a Relief - Male Body
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
- Culture
- Cypriot
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292987
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 6.9 cm (4 15/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.3
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Hard pale brown clay. Reddish surface speckled with brown. Impression of front mold with figure in high relief. Broken vertically in half, horizontally at shoulder and below knee. Nude male body with right arm outstretched holding an oinochoe. Faintly visible drape over right forearm. "Cyprus 1874" written on back.
Verification Level
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