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Source Description
This appliqué is from the base of a handle on a vase. The Medusa head is at the center of a palmette.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
36379
label
Head of the Medusa
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
36379
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Head of the Medusa
description
This appliqué is from the base of a handle on a vase. The Medusa head is at the center of a palmette.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st century BCE-4th century CE
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
appliqué (visual works)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)
Source extras
med
bronze
creator_ids
6191
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
2189
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
8504905e548df929