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1907.68.18

Cast of animal carving on stone

1907.68.18

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Collection type
Object
Description
Cast of animal carving on stone
Geographical reference
France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Abri des Eyzies [Musée de St. Germain-en-Laye]
Person
Field collector Robert Ferris Damon
PRM source Robert Ferris Damon
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1907 Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic Solutrean
Date collected
Before 1907
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1907
Materials and processes
Material Plaster, Process Cast
Object numbers
Accession number: 1907.68.18
Research and responses

The original stone that this cast was made from appears in A. Plate XXIX figure 1 in Henry Christy and Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet, 1875 volume [also published with Thomas Rupert Jones], Reliquiae aquitanicae: Being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Pèrigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France [published in London by Williams & Norgat]. This book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft. [MJD 05/02/2014]

Search terms: Figure, Reproduction, Cast, Animal Figure

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