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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.41.47.A-B
Title
Two Sections of an Architectural Frieze
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
early 5th Century
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)
Period
Byzantine period
Culture
Coptic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/71939

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Technique
Relief
Dimensions
32 cm h x 143 cm w x 12.5 cm d
(12 5/8 in. h x 56 5/16 in. w x 4 15/16 in. d)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Said to be from Bawit. Hagop Kevorkian collection, gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1975.

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
1975.41.47.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sections of an architectural frieze decorated in relief. Interlocking laurel bands form a series of medallions, which themselves contain either a rosette or a female head with individual features, perhaps portraits. Section A is bordered along three edges by a very narrow, undecorated fillet; section B along its top and bottom edges. Stylized leaves fill the spandrels between medallions.

Publication History

  • "Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, p. 26, no. 53, ill.
  • Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 167/fig. 84

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/29/2018 - 05/31/2023

Verification Level

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