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Mirror
Height: 20 cm
Width: 18.7 cm
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
(1901)
Sixth Dynasty
Old Kingdom
-2345
BC
-
2181
-2181
BC
Accession number: E.72.1901
Primary reference Number: 50384
Oldadmincategory: MW
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 (2020) "Mirror"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/50384 Accessed: 2021-12-09 13:48:50
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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