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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.41.50
Title
Section of an Architectural Frieze
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
6th Century
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)
Period
Byzantine period
Culture
Coptic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/288637

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Technique
Relief
Dimensions
18 x 104 cm (7 1/16 x 40 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unknown, formerly of the Kevorkian Collection. Said to come from Bawit.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.41.50
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Section of an architectural frieze decorated in relief. Highly stylized continuous acanthus scroll with beaded, vine-like stem sends forth shoots terminating in grape clusters or vine leaves and forming loops. Within the loops are baskets filled with fruit or birds picking at fruit or foliage. A narrow, undecorated fillet borders both top and bottom edge of the block.

Publication History

  • "Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, p. 24, no. 41, ill.

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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