Gallery Location
- Artist/Maker
- Unknown (Persian)
- Title
- Fertility Goddess
- Date
- 600–529 B.C.E.
- Period
- period of Cyrus the Great
- Material & Process
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- 7 1/4 x 3 5/8 x 1 15/16 in. Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of Alexander and Henrietta W. Hollaender
- Inventory No.
- 1992.361
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Location
- Persia
Related
1964, excavated in the vicinity of the Marlik excavation (NW Iran). Unknown date, with Samuel Dubiner (Ramat Gan, Israel). 1967, sold by Galerie Israel, Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) to Alexander and Henrietta W. Hollaender (Oak Ridge, TN); 1987, deposited on long-term loan to Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1992, bequeathed to Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
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