Semidiptych (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-105
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1300 (original number, Casts) and 8-5015 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.158 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Semidiptych with the inscription: NICOMACHO(RV)M in a quadrangular tablet at the top. Below draped woman or goddess (Daneter) lights one torch by another near a flaming altar under a pine tree. From an ivory original (broken). This is the earliest of 1297/1300, and is pagan. At left, remnant of ornate metal fastenings. One of six nearly globular peg heads remains in the palmetted frame.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the Louvre Museum, Paris
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Semidiptychs
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Semidiptych (reproduction), accession number 21-105, described as Cast of Semidiptych with the inscription: NICOMACHO(RV)M in a quadrangular tablet at the top. Below draped woman or goddess (Daneter) lights one torch by another near a flaming altar under a pine tree. From an ivory original (broken). This is the earliest of 1297/1300, and is pagan. At left, remnant of ornate metal fastenings. One of six nearly globular peg heads remains in the palmetted frame.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Semidiptych (reproduction), accession number 21-105, described as Cast of Semidiptych with the inscription: NICOMACHO(RV)M in a quadrangular tablet at the top. Below draped woman or goddess (Daneter) lights one torch by another near a flaming altar under a pine tree. From an ivory original (broken). This is the earliest of 1297/1300, and is pagan. At left, remnant of ornate metal fastenings. One of six nearly globular peg heads remains in the palmetted frame.

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