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Large Spindle-shaped Unguentarium
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin New York (by 1914) by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin New York (1914-1964) gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art 1964.
Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Godwin
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