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Front of the Left Foot of a Statue of Eros or a Child (?)
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton Boston MA and Miss Margaret Norton Cambridge MA (by 1920) gift; to the Fogg Museum 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Misses Norton
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