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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.156
Title
Ionic Capital
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
c. 100-300 CE
Period
Roman Imperial period
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291571

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
5.5" tall x 17.5" wide x 14.75" deep
60 lbs

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Excavated from Antioch, Sector 15-M (no. C287-A318), (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 Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.156
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. 159 no. 96, pl. 37 no. 96

Verification Level

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