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Woman's head
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 0.23 m
Height: 0.276 m
Width: 0.14 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: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Hellenistic
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Accession number: GR.95.1937
Primary reference Number: 69404
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) "Head" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/69404 Accessed: 2023-05-29 03:00:59
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/69404
|title=Head
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-29 03:00:59|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-69404
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Head</figcaption>
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Accession Number: P.12973-R
Accession Number: O.40-1917
Accession Number: GR.10.1890
Accession Number: P.12970-R
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