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Herakles, from a drinking vessel
Height: 0.225 m
Width: 0.11 m
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: Bought
(1864)
by
Leake, William Martin
Hellenistic
-300
BCE
-
-201
BCE
Accession number: GR.1.1864
Primary reference Number: 65580
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 (2022)
"Statuette"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/65580 Accessed: 2022-05-16 10:00:59
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{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/65580|title=Statuette|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-05-16 10:00:59|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}
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