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Lion-Headed Goddess

Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Date: 664–30 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: copper alloy
Dimensions: H. 15.5 cm (6/1 8 in); w. 3 cm 13/16 in); 2.5 cm (1 in)
Credit Line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904
Accession Number: 04.2.588
On view in Gallery 134
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  • Provenance

    Collection of Judge Elbert E. Farman, formed when he was U.S. consul general in Egypt 1876–84. Donated to the museum by Darius Ogden Mills, New York, in 1904.

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