200-300 CE
14 x 11.2 x 17.2 cm (5 1/2 x 4 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Terracotta, traces of white slip
4th-1st century BCEGreekSandstone; from Tianlongshan Cave 3, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province
6th centuryChineseGreen jadeite
7th-10th centuryMexicanGreek marble
1st-2nd century CERoman
Bronze
20th centuryAmericanAlabaster
7th century BCENeo-AssyrianBronze
2nd millennium BCESyro-HittiteBronze with mottled green over brown patina
19th centuryFrenchGypsum
3rd millennium BCENeo-Sumerian
Bottle of boric acid
20th centuryGermanCopper
2nd millennium BCESyro-Hittite
Plastic, lucite
20th centuryAmerican