Object Title
Olive Wreath
Measurements
22.5 x 20.3 cm
Creation Date
late 4th-3rd Century BCE
Credit Line
Carlos Collection of Ancient Art
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/3237/olive-wreath?ctx=32ff79413bbf90a19d08680002298dee4c7200f2&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Ex private European collection, assembled prior to early 1980s. European art market. Ex private collection, London, England, from ca. 1984-1985. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Michael Ward [Ward & Company, Works of Art, Inc.], New York, New York.
Exhibition Information
Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, January 9 - March 28, 1993
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - March 1996
Nike: Victory and Competition at the Ancient Greek Festival Games, Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 30 - August 18, 1996
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, August 1996 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 28, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Publication Information
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 58.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2006.
Joel LeMon, "Through the Museum with the Bible," SBL Forum, 2006.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Object was purchased by the museum in 1991.