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| Object Number: | 48-2-154 |
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| Current Location: |
Rome Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Graeco-Roman |
| Provenience: | Turkey (Country) Phrygia |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Bronze |
| Iconography: | Bull Head |
| Height: | 6.4 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948 |
| Other Number: | 52 - Collector Number L-2-170 - Old Loan Number |
Description
Bull's head. Patina removed in 1966. Ends of horns are missing, and part of left ear. Bull's mask is hollow cast. Mask was probably a decorative attachment or possibly a lid.. Details of hair, cross-hatched forelock, and nose wrinkles were made by deep grooves.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Classical World - Roman World (15 Mar 2003) | 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. 44, no. 125, pl. 14 | 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. 169, no. 175; p. 349, fig. 119 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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