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Mercury
History note: Bequeathed to Trinity College by the Rev. G.A. Browne in 1843
Depth: 0.05 m
Height: 0.15 m
Width: 0.07 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: Loan (1969) by Trinity College, Cambridge
Early Roman
1
CE
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200
CE
Accession number: Loan Ant.42
Primary reference Number: 160255
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 (2023) "Figure" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/160255 Accessed: 2023-06-11 03:08:57
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/160255
|title=Figure
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-11 03:08:57|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-160255
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant39/Loan_20Ant_42_20_281_29.jpg" alt="Figure" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Figure</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: O.1-1898
Accession Number: OC.84C-1946
Accession Number: OC.84A-1946
Accession Number: E.17.1899
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