Janus Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 200 B.C.E–500 C.E.

Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 26 × 8 × 9 in. (66.04 × 20.32 × 22.86 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.363
Geography: Guinea Coast, Nigeria
Culture: Katsina
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Possibly Jeremiah Cole, Los Angeles and Atlanta (originally Kankan and Freetown), prior to 2004; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.

Bibliography

Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 234, ill

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222, 224, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

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