Male bearded head, lion, lioness and crested bird
History note: Presented by the Greek Government
Presented by Greek Government
Height: 20 mm
Width: 14 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given by The Greek Government
Perhaps mid seventh century B.C
Circa
-675
BCE
-
Circa
-625
BCE
Intaglio
Accession number: CG 35
Primary reference Number: 124111
Gem catalogue number: GR.145.1923
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Four-faced" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/124111 Accessed: 2023-06-06 03:54:31
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/124111
|title=Four-faced
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-06 03:54:31|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-124111
Accession Number: PD.12-1975
Accession Number: E.T.16
Accession Number: E.T.36
Accession Number: E.T.39
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