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Sleeve Band: Personification
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In the central roundel is a bust of a female personfication dressed in a green robe dotted with white. She holds a budding bough in each hand. Above her is an inscription in Greek letters reading ΓΕΩΡΓΕ (Georgi). The four smaller roundels contain nereids riding sea creatures. Horizontal bands containing red flowers alternate with blue bands containing fish.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Collection Besselièvre Paris (by 1911) sold; Charles Bain Hoyt (by 1931) gift; to the Fogg Museum.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
Title: Sleeve Band: Personification
Description:
In the central roundel is a bust of a female personfication dressed in a green robe dotted with white.
She holds a budding bough in each hand.
Above her is an inscription in Greek letters reading ΓΕΩΡΓΕ (Georgi).
The four smaller roundels contain nereids riding sea creatures.
Horizontal bands containing red flowers alternate with blue bands containing fish.
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