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Wood sun-dial: E.GA.4596.1943

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 19

Titles

Wood sun-dial

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Description

Sun-dial

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major

Dating

Macedonian
Ptolemaic Period#
-400 - -1

Materials used in production

Wood

Techniques used in production

Carved

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.GA.4596.1943
Primary reference Number: 59048
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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