Razor

Object Number: | 48-2-316 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Italic Villanovan |
Provenience: | Italy Orvieto |
Date Made: | 850 BCE to 700 BCE |
Early Date: | -850 |
Late Date: | -700 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Bronze |
Length: | 13.8 cm |
Width: | 8.5 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948 |
Other Number: | 137 - Collector Number L-2-299 - Old Loan Number |
Description
Lunate razor; oval razor of unusual shape. Dark green patina. Object is complete. One side of razor has three scalloped depressions. An irregularly oval ring is soldered to one end. The long curving side of the razor has been filed down to a sharp edge which has been chipped.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Book] Warden, P. G. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 26, no. 52 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Thesis] Moore, Charlotte B. 1969. Description and analysis of the bronze and lead objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 53, no. 52a; p. 313, fig. 46 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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