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Terracotta actor: GR.85d.1937

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 21

Titles

Terracotta actor

Maker(s)

Unknown

Entities

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Description

Actor, goose in basket

Legal notes

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

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.147 m

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Hellenistic
-0300 BCE - -0101 BCE

Note

Moulded

Materials used in production

Clay

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.85d.1937
Primary reference Number: 69381
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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