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Frieze with Acanthus Scroll and Palmette-like Flowers, in four sections
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Fragmentary architectural frieze decorated in high, flat relief. Stylized acanthus scroll with alternating leaves and seven-petaled rosettes framed by a continuous vine scroll. Plain, narrow fillet, with horizontal incision towards top, forms lower border of block.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Unknown formerly of the Kevorkian Collection. Said to be from Bawit.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Title: Frieze with Acanthus Scroll and Palmette-like Flowers, in four sections
Description:
Fragmentary architectural frieze decorated in high, flat relief.
Stylized acanthus scroll with alternating leaves and seven-petaled rosettes framed by a continuous vine scroll.
Plain, narrow fillet, with horizontal incision towards top, forms lower border of block.
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