Bearded Man with a Staff
late 6th century BCE
Dimensions
12.2 x 3.5 x 4.8 cm (4 13/16 x 1 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Athanasios Rhousopoulos, Athens, (acquired at Argos 1870). Jacob Hirsch, Geneva and New York, (by 1953), sold; to Frederick M. Watkins, New Haven, CT, (1953-1965), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1965.
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