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Michael Padgett, ed., <em>Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton, NJ:&nbsp;Art Museum, Princeton University, &nbsp;2001)., pp. 92-94, no. 23","date":2001,"id":2140,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/47868668"},{"boilertext":"Frances Follin Jones, \"Welcome back, William\",<EM> Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 13, no. 2 (1954): p. 23.","citation":"Frances Follin Jones, \"Welcome back, William\",<EM> Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 13, no. 2 (1954): p. 23., p. 24 (illus.)","date":1954,"id":6864,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774282"},{"boilertext":"\"Recent accessions,\" <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> vol. 8, no. 1 (1949): p. 15.","citation":"\"Recent accessions,\" <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> vol. 8, no. 1 (1949): p. 15., p. 15","date":1949,"id":847,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774270"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":12861,"period":"Roman Imperial Period","alphasort":"Roman Imperial Period","begindate":-30,"enddate":467,"displayperiod":"Roman Imperial Period, Julio-Claudian Period, 27–68 CE, ca. 30 BCE–476 CE","displaydate":"ca. 30 BCE–476 CE"}],"department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199316,"term":"Ancient Mediterranean Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1-500","dateend":37,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Head of a goat","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1948-58","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Discovered in Rome, then on view at the Museo dei Conservatori; missing during WW2; purchased in Rome on the art market&nbsp;by C. Rufus Morey in 1948; returned by PUAM&nbsp;to Italian authorities and the Museo dei Conservatori&nbsp;in 1953; given to the Museum by the Italian government later in 1953.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<p>This unassuming head of a goat has had a remarkable history. After it was purchased by Princeton University professor C. Rufus Morey for the Museum following the end of the Second World War, Professor Ernest T. DeWald identified it as an object from the Capitoline Museums in Rome, from which it had disappeared in the confusion following the end of the war. The director of the museum confirmed its ownership, and Princeton returned the head through Italian diplomats. In gratitude for the collaboration between countries and museums, and with the knowledge that “Billy,” as the head was called, was a particular favorite of Princeton students, the Italian government decided to gift the head back to the Princeton Museum. On behalf of the mayor of Rome, it was handed over in a ceremonial gathering of museum and government officials.</p><p>Comparative illustration: [Italian officials present “Billy” to Princeton University in a January 1954 ceremony. Photo: Princeton Alumni Weekly]</p>","remarks":"MED_22-T2-2_CLA.pdf – Day One Cataloguing"}],"datebegin":1,"sortnumber":"1948   58y","published_date":"2026-02-11 09:57:36.167554","objectid":23689,"dimensions":"26.5 x 11.6 x 23.3 cm (10 7/16 x 4 9/16 x 9 3/16 in.)","on_view":true}