Statuette of a snake goddess
about 1600–1500 B.C. or early 20th century
Medium/TechniqueGold, ivory
DimensionsHeight: 16.1 cm (6 5/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz
Accession number14.863
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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ProvenanceBy July 1914: written records in the Museum archives place the object at the MFA with no information about its previous provenance (oral tradition in the 1950s linked the piece to an immigrant from Greece but recent research by Kenneth Lapatin concludes that the statuette was brought from Europe on behalf of an unnamed person by Richard Seager who then sent it to Boston with Bert Hodge Hill, a former assistant curator at the MFA); purchased by MFA, October 1, 1914 with funds provided by Mrs. W. Scott Fitz
Modern work in the style of Early Minoan III
30 B.C.–A.D. 364
4th–5th century A.D.
1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.
3rd century B.C.
3rd century B.C.