1940.153: Capital
Architectural Elements
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.153
- Title
- Capital
- Classification
- Architectural Elements
- Work Type
- architectural element
- Date
- 5th century
- Places
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Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Seleukeia Pieria (Syria)
Find Spot: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey) - Period
- Roman Imperial period
- Culture
- Syrian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291542
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Limestone
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
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42.8 x 47 x 47 cm (16 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)
216 lbs.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Excavated from Seleucia Pieria, 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
- Permissions
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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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