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Section of an Arch (one of two pieces)
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Fragments 1975.41.58.A and B represent two adjoining parts of an arch. Elaborate acanthus scroll frieze, in high relief, with tendril-bordered medallions containing central fruit, flower, or vine leaf. Chevronesque vegetal pattern on lower border.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Unknown formerly in the Kevorkian Collection.
Information sheet in object folder reads: "Another fragment of the same arch is in the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria and it comes definitely from Oxyrhynchus."
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Title: Section of an Arch (one of two pieces)
Description:
Fragments 1975.
41.
58.
A and B represent two adjoining parts of an arch.
Elaborate acanthus scroll frieze, in high relief, with tendril-bordered medallions containing central fruit, flower, or vine leaf.
Chevronesque vegetal pattern on lower border.
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