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Inscription: Loan Ant.21

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Current Location: Gallery 21

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Description

Honorary decree for Antiochus I

Notes

History note: Gift to Trinity College from Lady Bute in 1766 (bequeathed to Lady Bute by Montagu, Edward Wortley in 1761)

Measurements and weight

Height: 1.34 m
Width: 0.74 m

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Loan (1969) by Trinity College, Cambridge

Dating

Hellenistic
Production date: 279 BC

Materials used in production

Marble

Techniques used in production

Carved

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Identification numbers

Accession number: Loan Ant.21
Primary reference Number: 160232
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 9 March 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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