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Socket

n.d.

Classification

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Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Leaded bronze

Culture

Unidentified culture

Century

Unidentified century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

5.8 x 6.2 x 5 cm (2 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin, New York, (by 1914), by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin, New York (1914-1964), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1964. Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.

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