1975.41.50: Section of an Architectural Frieze
Architectural Elements
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1975.41.50
- Title
- Section of an Architectural Frieze
- 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/288637
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Limestone
- Technique
- Relief
- Dimensions
- 18 x 104 cm (7 1/16 x 40 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Unknown, formerly of the Kevorkian Collection. Said to come 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
- 1975.41.50
- 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. Highly stylized continuous acanthus scroll with beaded, vine-like stem sends forth shoots terminating in grape clusters or vine leaves and forming loops. Within the loops are baskets filled with fruit or birds picking at fruit or foliage. A narrow, undecorated fillet borders both top and bottom edge of the block.
Publication History
- "Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, p. 24, no. 41, ill.
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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