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1892.67.19

Tanagra head

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1892.67.19

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Collection type
Object
Description
Tanagra head
Geographical reference
Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy
Lazio Provincia di Roma Rome
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Iron Age Hellenistic
Date collected
By 1873
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1892
Materials and processes
Material Terracotta Pottery
Dimensions
Height: max 56 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1892.67.19
Research and responses

Tanagra - the term applied to the small terracotta statuettes found in ancient temples at Tanagra in Greece. [AP 18/8/99]

Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]

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