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Fragment of a Box Mirror Relief Depicting a Gigantomachy with Athena
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
[Christie's New York sale 9380 Lot 271 June 13 2000] sold: to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (2000-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Christie's catalogue note: Private collection acquiried in Europe in the 1920's.
Christie's Sale 9380 June 13 2000 Lot 271.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Fragment of a Box Mirror Relief Depicting a Gigantomachy with Athena
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