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Red and white cornelian, undecorated, with two deep holes on the top
History note: Bought from Karlbeck, Nov. 1937
Height: 5.3 cm
Length: 5.2 cm
Width: 2.45 cm
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: Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
400 BC - 1 BC
Accession number: O.23-1946
Primary reference Number: 167860
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Scabbard chape" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167860 Accessed: 2023-06-02 17:47:31
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-02 17:47:31|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: O.101-1946
Accession Number: O.26-1946
Accession Number: HEN.M.269 & A-1933
Accession Number: O.3-1973
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