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Alabastron, Showing Sirens

Image attached to GR.42.1937

An image of vessel 
alabastron, sirens
 
Production Notes 
 Middle Corinthian
 
Dimensions
 height 0.186 m
diameter 0.085 m

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vessel alabastron, sirens Production Notes Middle Corinthian Dimensions height 0.186 m diameter 0.085 m

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  • Accession Number: GR.42.1937
  • Copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: norman, andrew; andrew
  • Image height: 760 pixels
  • Image width: 570 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 50.79kB
  • Exposure time: 1/90
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 45/1
  • Captured: 2011:11:05 14:06:47

Key words

6th Century Archaic Artistic Movement BC Date Department Fitz_ANT Material Middle Corinthian Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPAC alabastron animals birds clay cosmetics creature mythical mythological mythology oil siren vessel women

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rgb(82,71,58), rgb(232,232,232), rgb(167,152,133), rgb(176,140,100), rgb(116,117,116), rgb(201,193,181), rgb(172,173,172), rgb(125,116,116), rgb(164,148,102), rgb(195,196,196), rgb(180,172,172)

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