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Architectural Frieze

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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics The Hagop Kevorkian Collection New York (by 1975) sold; to the Fogg Museum of Art 1975. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
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Title: Architectural Frieze
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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.

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