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Siren Shaped Perfumed-Oil Container

Image attached to GR.99a.1906

An image of vessel
 cosmetic vessel
 siren, perfumed-oil container
 
Production Notes 
 moulded
 
Dimensions
 length 0.055 m
height 0.075 m
width 0.04 m

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vessel cosmetic vessel siren, perfumed-oil container Production Notes moulded Dimensions length 0.055 m height 0.075 m width 0.04 m

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  • Accession Number: GR.99a.1906
  • For copyright information contact Fitzwilliam Museum Image Library
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: norman; andrew
  • Image height: 760 pixels
  • Image width: 697 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 51.20kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 45/1
  • Captured: 2011:10:25 00:03:34

Key words

6th Century Archaic Artistic Movement BC Date Department Fitz_ANT Grecian Greek Material Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPAC anthropomorphic clay cosmetics heads mythological mythology oil perfume siren vessel woman

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