Owl Shaped Cosmetic Vessel

An image of Cosmetic vessel. Owl, perfumed-oil container.
Megara Megarid, Greece. Dimensions height 0.067 m, length 0.06 m, width 0.045 m.

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Cosmetic vessel. Owl, perfumed-oil container. Megara Megarid, Greece. Dimensions height 0.067 m, length 0.06 m, width 0.045 m.

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Accession Number: GR.2.1903
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Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: norman; andrew
Image height: 654 pixels
Image width: 760 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
Filesize: 51.63kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2011:10:24 21:49:56

Key words

6th Century Archaic Artistic Movement BC Date Department Fitz_ANT Grecian Material Middle Corinthian Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPAC animal figure animals anthropomorphic birds clay cosmetics figure oil owls painted vessel

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