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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.153
Title
Capital
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
5th century
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Syria
Period
Roman Imperial period
Culture
Syrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291542

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
42.8 x 47 x 47 cm (16 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Excavated from Antioch, Martyrion, sector 1S-20/21-J (no. C713-A377) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.153
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard Stillwell, ed., Antioch-on-the-Orontes III, The Excavations, 1937-1939, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1941), p.158 no. 77, pl. 34 no. 77

Verification Level

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