SculptureGreek4th-3rd century BCE

Man Seated on a Rockwork Throne

4th-3rd century BCE

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Limestone, of type found on Cyprus

Culture

Greek

Period

Ptolemaic period

Century

4th-3rd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

12.7 x 9 cm (5 x 3 9/16 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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