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Votive torso
Depth: 0.017 m
Height: 0.052 m
Width: 0.028 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: Given (1907)
Middle Minoan I
Bronze Age
-2000
BC
-
-1701
BC
Accession number: GR.157.1907
Primary reference Number: 68237
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) "Votive offering" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/68237 Accessed: 2023-06-04 01:18:04
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/68237
|title=Votive offering
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-04 01:18:04|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-68237
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant19/GR_157_1907_281_29.jpg" alt="Votive offering" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Votive offering</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: GR.39.1984
Accession Number: GR.55.1984
Accession Number: GR.158.1907
Accession Number: GR.71.1982
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