1975.41.47.A-B: Two Sections of an Architectural Frieze
Architectural Elements
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1975.41.47.A-B
- Title
- Two Sections of an Architectural Frieze
- Classification
- Architectural Elements
- Work Type
- architectural element
- Date
- early 5th Century
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)
- Period
- Byzantine period
- Culture
- Coptic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/71939
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Limestone
- Technique
- Relief
- Dimensions
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32 cm h x 143 cm w x 12.5 cm d
(12 5/8 in. h x 56 5/16 in. w x 4 15/16 in. d)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Said to be from Bawit. Hagop Kevorkian collection, gift; to the Fogg Museum, 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
- 1975.41.47.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Sections of an architectural frieze decorated in relief. Interlocking laurel bands form a series of medallions, which themselves contain either a rosette or a female head with individual features, perhaps portraits. Section A is bordered along three edges by a very narrow, undecorated fillet; section B along its top and bottom edges. Stylized leaves fill the spandrels between medallions.
Publication History
- "Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, p. 26, no. 53, ill.
- Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 167/fig. 84
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/29/2018 - 05/31/2023
Verification Level
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