1975.41.94.A-E: Five Sections of an Architectural Frieze

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1975.41.94.A-E

Title

Five Sections of an Architectural Frieze

Classification

Architectural Elements

Work Type

architectural element

Date

late 5th-early 6th Century

Places

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

Period

Byzantine period

Culture

Coptic

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/288487

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Limestone

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

A: 14 x 39 cm (5 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.); B: 13.8 x 40 cm (5 7/16 x 15 3/4 in.);
C: 14.2 x 37.5 cm (5 9/16 x 14 3/4 in.); D: 13.8 x 40 cm (5 7/16 x 15 3/4 in.);
E: 13.5 x 42 cm (5 5/16 x 16 9/16 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

1975.41.94.A-E

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Architectural frieze decorated in relatively high relief. Continuous vine scroll forms a series of figure-eights. Foliage springs from above and below points of intersection of vine tendrils. The almond-shaped loops of the scroll form frames, within which are back-to-back acanthus leaves and fruit clusters. Frieze bordered at bottom edge by a fillet in two facets, the upper narrower than the lower.

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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