Sandstone head of female devi with elaborate coiffure and earring
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Ian Potter Museum of Art 2008 Australia
Kushan, Mathura (north India), 3rd century CE
Collection of David and Marion Adams
Promised gift to the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne
Selected artefacts from the David and Marion Adams Collection
An impressive collection of classical artworks
Ian Potter Museum of Art
Wednesday 15 April 2009 to Sunday 11 October 2009
This fascinating exhibition features Classical works from the Adams Collection including a marble torso of the Roman god Sylvanus, an Italo-Corinthian buff ware chalice from the 8th to 9th century BCE, and a 3rd-century marble sarcophagus bas-relief fragment.
Dr Marion Adams (1932–1995) was dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1988 to 1993. Throughout her life she acquired an impressive collection of artefacts from the ancient Near and Far East, Egypt, Greece and Rome, Africa and the Americas. Marion Adams’s husband, David Adams, has continued to add to this collection in her memory, and has generously donated selected items from the collection to the University of Melbourne.
Location
Ian Potter Museum of ArtThe University of Melbourne, Swanston Street
Melbourne Precinct
Victoria
Australia
