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Ram's Head Perfumed-Oil Container

Image attached to GR.39.1896

An image of vessel 
cosmetic vessel 
ram's head perfumed-oil container
Melos Greek Islands

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vessel cosmetic vessel ram's head perfumed-oil container Melos Greek Islands

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  • Accession Number: GR.39.1896
  • For copyright information contact Fitzwilliam Museum Image Library
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: norman; andrew
  • Image height: 708 pixels
  • Image width: 760 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 68.93kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 45/1
  • Captured: 2011:10:25 00:23:46

Key words

6th Century Archaic Artistic Movement BC Date Department Fitz_ANT Material Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPAC animal figure animals anthropomorphic bottle clay cosmetics figure flask oil perfume ram vessel

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