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Head of a Nymph or a Hermaphrodite
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Edward W. Forbes Cambridge MA (by 1899) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1899.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Edward W. Forbes
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