1975.41.51: Architectural Frieze

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1975.41.51

Title

Architectural Frieze

Classification

Architectural Elements

Work Type

architectural element

Date

5th century

Places

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

Period

Byzantine period, Early

Culture

Coptic

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/351158

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Limestone

Dimensions

30.5 x 90 cm (12 x 35 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The Hagop Kevorkian Collection, New York, (by 1975), sold; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1975.

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

1975.41.51

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This freize is decorated with a scroll issuing from the mouth of a fish (dolphin?). Loops of the scroll are filled with cones encircled by acanthus leaves.

Publication History

• "Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, p. 27, no. 56

Exhibition History

• Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century AD, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 01/23/1941 - 03/09/1941
• Early Christian Africa: Arts of Transformation, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020

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