Inscription (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-215
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000215
Alternate number:
2009 (original number), 8-5215 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), 955 (original number), and IvO 2
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Greek inscription in the Eleian dialect. From a bronze one of a state decree discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. Olympia V No. 2. Roehl Inscriptions Graecae antiquissmae (112, 113 B) The engraver of it used a metal plate which had previously served some decorative purpose. Hence the ornaments in low relief that appear on the back of his lettered quadrangle.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Inscriptions
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Inscription (reproduction), accession number 21-215, described as Cast of Greek inscription in the Eleian dialect. From a bronze one of a state decree discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. Olympia V No. 2. Roehl Inscriptions Graecae antiquissmae (112, 113 B) The engraver of it used a metal plate which had previously served some decorative purpose. Hence the ornaments in low relief that appear on the back of his lettered quadrangle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Inscription (reproduction), accession number 21-215, described as Cast of Greek inscription in the Eleian dialect. From a bronze one of a state decree discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. Olympia V No. 2. Roehl Inscriptions Graecae antiquissmae (112, 113 B) The engraver of it used a metal plate which had previously served some decorative purpose. Hence the ornaments in low relief that appear on the back of his lettered quadrangle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Inscription (reproduction), accession number 21-215, described as Cast of Greek inscription in the Eleian dialect. From a bronze one of a state decree discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. Olympia V No. 2. Roehl Inscriptions Graecae antiquissmae (112, 113 B) The engraver of it used a metal plate which had previously served some decorative purpose. Hence the ornaments in low relief that appear on the back of his lettered quadrangle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Inscription (reproduction), accession number 21-215, described as Cast of Greek inscription in the Eleian dialect. From a bronze one of a state decree discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. Olympia V No. 2. Roehl Inscriptions Graecae antiquissmae (112, 113 B) The engraver of it used a metal plate which had previously served some decorative purpose. Hence the ornaments in low relief that appear on the back of his lettered quadrangle.

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