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Architectural Frieze Block
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End slab of limestone frieze. Deeply carved continuous vine scroll with shoots terminating in leaves, grape bunches, and cones. At the far left of the slab, a bird picks grapes from a bunch. Frieze block retains significant traces of a thin, white plaster coating with remains of red pigment.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Unknown formerly of the Kevorkian Collection.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Title: Architectural Frieze Block
Description:
End slab of limestone frieze.
Deeply carved continuous vine scroll with shoots terminating in leaves, grape bunches, and cones.
At the far left of the slab, a bird picks grapes from a bunch.
Frieze block retains significant traces of a thin, white plaster coating with remains of red pigment.
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