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Limestone model columns
Palm column, model. Such columns are found in Egyptian temples. The models may be votives or architectural models.
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 25 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Ptolemaic Period
Circa
-0332
BCE
-
Circa
-0030
BCE
Accession number: E.30.1937
Primary reference Number: 53570
Oldadmincategory: S
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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