Patrizio Gunning, L;
(2019)
Satala Aphrodite. Case Study.
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Abstract
The Satala Aphrodite is a Hellenistic bronze head displayed in a wall mounted glass case over a ventilation grille near the south entrance to room 22 on the ground floor of the British Museum. Its current location and curatorial display reveal little of the complex route by which the head came to be a part of the Museum or of the importance ascribed to it at the time of its acquisition. The case study gathers material from the Museum archives to tell the story of the Satala head’s acquisition and shed light on the context of its original provenance. This study could be expanded at a later date to explain how the archive material could be linked back to the online collection.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Satala Aphrodite. Case Study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is the author's version. |
| Keywords: | Collecting history, Transparency, Ottoman Empire, Alessandro Castellani, British Museum |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133622 |
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