East Mediterranean limestone hand fragment
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A hand fragment from a painted limestone figure.
Culture
Eastern Mediterranean, late 1st Millennium BC to early 1st Millennium AD
Condition
Fragment as shown
Size
8 x 3.9 cms
Provenance
Ex. collection: Paul Gaudin (1858-1921), France; thence by family descent. Collected in Anatolia between 1899-1904. Paul Gaudin was an engineer and antiquary who became an archaeologist in the course of his work in Turkey and is credited with the discovery of Yortan, an important Bronze Age site closely associated with Troy. Antiquities excavated by Gaudin are to be found in several prominent collections including the Musee de Louvre and British Museum.