bust
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.669
- Description
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Lapis lazuli bust of Socrates.
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Antiquities 669 "669. A small busto of Socrates of Lapis Lazuli wt. a gilt pedestal from Cardinal Gualtieris collection."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.669
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.669
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 669 (Antiquities)