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Silver amulet of Apis
Apis bull, standing
Height: 2.7 cm
Length: 2.8 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
(1939)
by
Hornblower, G. D., OBE
Ptolemaic period
-323
-
-30
Accession number: E.55a.1939
Primary reference Number: 53740
Oldadmincategory: A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Silver amulet of Apis"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/53740 Accessed: 2022-06-29 20:07:59
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Accession Number: E.29.1937
Accession Number: E.GA.2911.1943
Accession Number: E.159.1954
Accession Number: E.51.1932
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