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Cypriot

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Roman, 30 BCE-330 CE

Red terracotta and red slip

Overall: 9 × 5 5/16 in. (22.9 × 13.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW

12.1.338

Geography

Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, West Asia, Asia

Period

1-500

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Classical World

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 7, Thinking About Empire, Alan Covey, Winter 2014

Provenance

Collected by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, American Consul to Cyprus, 1865-1876; given to Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900, Class of 1872H), Hanover, New Hampshire, about 1872; bequeathed to his second wife, Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.

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