Cycladic Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1956
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Hirshhorn
label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. PURCHASED BY J HIRSHHORN FROM ELIE BOROWSKI, TORONTO, CANADA, IN 1956. (PREVIOUSLY NUMBERED AS T-13323 ON DISPLAY IN HALL 26). PATRICIA GETZ-PREZIOISI (1977) DESCRIBED THIS FIGURE: "..CAREFULLY CARVED IN FINE-GRAINED WHITE MARBLE; THE ORIGINAL POLISHING IS PRESERVED OVERMOST OF THE SURFACE; SMALL AREAS COVERED WITH CALCIUM CARBONATE, WHICH ENCRUSTATION IS AN INDICATION OF OBJECT'S AUTHENTICITY. THE PIECE IS OF CONSIDERABLE INTEREST. A 'HYBRID' IDOL OF THE EARLY CYCLADIC I PERIOD (GROTTA-PELOS OR PELOS-LAKKOUDES PHASE) ...." (SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL COMMENTS).
label: Notes
content: SEE SI ARCHIVES
label: Notes
content: Early Cycladic. (Hans-Gunter Buchholz and Vassos Karageorghis. Prehistoric Greece and Cyprus. Phaidon Press Limited, 1973, p. 365, 1195c)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Greece (not certain), Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cycladic
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553099-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 5 cm