300-700 CE
88.3 x 5 cm (34 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Excavated from Daphne, sector 27-O (no. b364-U669) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

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