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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.1.106
Title
Loom or Net Weight, Stamped "Hera"
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
weight
Date
5th-4th century BCE
Period
Classical period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54786

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Stamped
Dimensions
7.1 x 1.8 cm (2 13/16 x 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Walton Brooks McDaniel, New Jersey (?-1943/46) gift; to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, (1943/46-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Note: Walton Brooks McDaniel gave a portion of his collection to the Department of the Classics in 1943 and the rest in 1946. The Collection is named for his late wife, Alice Corinne McDaniel.

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
2012.1.106
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small circular terracotta disk with two perforations at the top. On one side there is a rectangular stamp with the name HERA in Greek (written with a reversed rho and a half-eta to signify a rough breathing). This object was likely used as a loom weight.

Publication History

  • Nancy Hirschland and Mason Hammond, "Stamped Potters' Marks and Other Stamped Pottery in the McDaniel Collection", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1968), Vol. 72, pp. 369-82, p. 380, pl. 2
  • John Crawford, Sidney Goldstein, George M. A. Hanfmann, John Kroll, Judith Lerner, Miranda Marvin, Charlotte Moore, and Duane Roller, Objects of Ancient Daily Life. A Catalogue of the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Belonging to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, ed. Jane Waldbaum, Department of the Classics (unpublished manuscript, 1970), T22, p. 41-42 [D. W. Roller]

Verification Level

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