votive offering
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.972
- Description
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Terracotta votive half-head.
- Production date
- 300BC-1BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 26 centimetres
- 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 972 "972. Halfe a face in relievo. Id."; id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 945 "945. A figure in red terra cotta in his left hand holding a roll & his left a wheel from Rome by L'Abbe Sterbini."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.972
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.972
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 972 (Antiquities)