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Pan Playing the Pipes

Pan Playing the Pipes

SculptureGreek4th-1st century BCE

Pan Playing the Pipes

325-31 BCE

Description

High relief against flat back. Figure is in side profile and broken off below elbows. Bearded, balding Pan playing two pipes. Round face and thick nose. Pipes are slightly broken. (Bottom row, far left, in photograph) Hard, pale brown clay; traces of white slip.

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Terracotta, traces of white slip

Culture

Greek

Period

Hellenistic period

Century

4th-1st century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

3.3 x 3.4 cm (1 5/16 x 1 5/16 in.)

Provenance

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).

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