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Lid or palette with the drunken Heracles supported by two female attendants
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Details
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- Date
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1st - 2nd century AD (AD 1 - 200)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)
- Material and technique
- green steatite
- Dimensions
- 7.1 x 11.2 x 1.1 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1993.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.24
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Further reading
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Museum Acquisitions and Notes’, ed. Carol Altman Bromberg and Prods Oktor Skjærvø, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 10, (1998), cat. 3, 268
Boardman, John, The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity, The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994), 117, illus. 4.51
Location
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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