Frog
SculptureEgyptian7th-1st century BCE

Frog

mid 7th-late 1st century BCE

Classification
Sculpture
Technique
Cast, lost-wax process
Medium
Leaded copper-tin-antimony alloy
Culture
Egyptian
Period
Late Period to Ptolemaic
Century
7th-1st century BCE
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

1.5 x 1.4 x 1.6 cm (9/16 x 9/16 x 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

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