On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Crouching panther or lioness,
3rd–1st century BCE
Afghan
Hellenistic Period, ca. 323–30 BCE
y1953-26
Information
Title
Crouching panther or lioness
Dates
3rd–1st century BCE
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
4.0 x 5.5 x 1.9 cm (1 9/16 x 2 3/16 x 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1953-26
Place Made
Asia, Afghanistan
Place Collected
Afghanistan
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Purchased from Mathias Komor in 1953.
- "Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 13, no. 2, (1954): p. 62-63., p. 62
- Frances Follin Jones, "The Princeton Art Museum: antiquities received in recent years", Archaeology 7, no. 4 (Dec., 1954): p. 237-243., p. 238
- Sculpture in silver, from islands in time: an exhibition, (New York?: American Federation of Arts?, 1955)., no. 5
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, cat. no. 3 - F. F. Jones and R. Goldberg, Ancient art in the Art Museum: Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960)., p. 10; p. 11 (illus.)
- Sheldon Cheney, Sculpture of the world: a history, (New York: Viking Press, 1968). , p. 160 (illus); p. 173
