The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of November 29, 2023

Lepidotus Fish

305–30 BC

Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty

(305–30 BCE)

Bronze, hollow cast

Overall: 5.4 x 2 cm (2 1/8 x 13/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.576

Location

107 Egyptian

Provenance
Purchased from Nicolas Tano, Cairo, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
Citations
Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 481
Exhibition history

CMA 1916, no. 26, p. 206, pl. 340

Exhibition of the Month: Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 3-December 28, 1952).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.576