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Current Location: Gallery 12: Being An Islander exhibition

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Description

Male head, wearing cap

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.236 m
Width: 0.102 m

Relative size of this object

10.2 cm23.6 cm1 mm What does this represent?

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1890)

Dating

Archaic
-0600 BC - -0501 BC

Materials used in production

Clay

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Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.25.1890
Primary reference Number: 66513
Oldmuseumnumber: CAM 383

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 23 February 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Head" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/66513 Accessed: 2023-05-30 16:32:43

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