Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-145
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
557 (original number), 647 (original number), and 8-5145 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of a small head, possibly of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a bronze discovered on the island of Kythera. Compare Brunn’s article in Archaeologische Zeitung 1876, Plate 3.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-145, described as Cast of a small head, possibly of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a bronze discovered on the island of Kythera. Compare Brunn’s article in Archaeologische Zeitung 1876, Plate 3.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-145, described as Cast of a small head, possibly of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a bronze discovered on the island of Kythera. Compare Brunn’s article in Archaeologische Zeitung 1876, Plate 3.

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