plaquette
- Museum number
- SLSeals.202.a
- Description
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Plaquette; lead; oval; Hercules and female figure(Atalanta?).
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.85 centimetres
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Width: 1.60 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 Seals 202 "202. Pallas sitting, armed. Lead, small, oval. Hercules standing, leaning on his Club, wth a female figure standing by him &c. Lead, small, oval."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Battered
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- SLSeals.202.a
- Additional IDs
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 202 (Seals)