1975.41.133: Section of an Architectural Frieze

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1975.41.133

Title

Section of an Architectural Frieze

Classification

Architectural Elements

Work Type

architectural element

Date

5th Century

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)

Period

Byzantine period

Culture

Coptic

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/287971

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Limestone

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

14 x 21.9 cm (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Unknown, formerly of the Kevorkian Collection. Said to be 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

1975.41.133

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Section of an architectural frieze, decorated in relief. A vine scroll forms a continuous figure-eight pattern (only one complete section of which is preserved on this block), filled with leaves and a grape cluster. A narrow, damaged fillet borders one long edge of the block, terminating before the block's short edge, and suggesting that this section comes from a door or window frame.

Publication History

• "Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, pp. 24-25, no. 45

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