Two Pieces of a Pilaster Capital | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1975.41.75.A-B
Title: Two Pieces of a Pilaster Capital
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/288409

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Limestone
Technique: Relief
Dimensions: 21 x 49 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 19 5/16 x 6 11/16 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: 1975.41.75.A-B
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Pilaster capital in two pieces, decorated in relief. Stylized, spiny acanthus foliage forms kalathos-shaped elements alternating with rounded tree-of-life-shaped elements. When taken together these form an egg-and-dart motif.

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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1975.41.75.A-B: Two Pieces of a Pilaster Capital