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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.196
Title
Section of Pilaster
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
c. 120 CE
Period
Roman Imperial period, Middle
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/286783

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Grayish marble with crystals
Dimensions
actual: 24.8 x 14 x 3.5 cm (9 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.216.196
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
109

Section of a Pilaster

The top molding is preserved, and the other three sides are broken irregularly. The back is smoothed with a slight forward angle at the top. The marble is from Proconnesus (Marmara) in the Propontis (Sea of Marmara).

Below two parallel fillet moldings at the top, a large acanthus leaf is shown flattened at the left. A plant curling upward into a rosette and a leafy tendril are at the right. Beyond at the lower right is the start of another plant.

Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer

Publication History

  • Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 120, no. 109

Verification Level

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