1st century CE
6.6 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm (2 5/8 x 1 1/16 x 1/2 in.)
Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, MA (by 1932), gift; to the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, 1932.
Sandstone; from Tianlongshan Cave 2, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province
6th centuryChinesePlaster
19th centuryItalianLimestone
5th century BCEAchaemenidTerracotta
18th-16th century BCESyrianMarble
3rd millennium BCECycladicCopper alloy
5th-3rd century BCEItalicWood box containing various archival materials
21st centuryPortugueseGiallo Antico marble from North Africa
2nd century CERomanWood, single-woodblock construction; with traces of polychrome
20th centuryJapaneseTerracotta
GreekLead-glazed ware: molded, white earthenware with straw-yellow, lead-fluxed glaze, and with cold-painted pigments over the glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseLeaded brass
19th-20th centuryUnidentified culture