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Limestone model columns: E.30.1937

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 19

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Limestone model columns

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Description

Palm column, model. Such columns are found in Egyptian temples. The models may be votives or architectural models.

Legal notes

The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937

Measurements and weight

Height: 25 cm

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood

Dating

Ptolemaic Period#
Circa -0332 BCE - Circa -0030 BCE

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Limestone

Techniques used in production

Carved

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.30.1937
Primary reference Number: 53570
Oldadmincategory: S
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 10 June 2022 Last processed: Tuesday 12 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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