Four Sections of a Marble Frieze
1st-5th century CE
Description
Sections of a marble frieze, from a building or other structure, decorated in relief in several registers. An egg and dart molding along the top of the block is separated from a tongue pattern by a very narrow, plain fillet. The tongues themselves surmount a narrow, plain fillet. Below this is a metope or continuous frieze course with a cushion-like figure with a curved edge and horizontal sides. What appear to be scales and/or feathers decorate this. The lower area of the flat space from which the figure projects is roughly worked, and one side of each block also has been left largely unworked. It seems likely, then, that each of these four pieces was set into another structure.
Dimensions
A: 33 x 17.5 cm (13 x 6 7/8 in.); B: 33.2 x 16 cm (13 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.) C: 32.3 x 12.5 cm (12 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.); D: 32 x 19 cm (12 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Unknown, formerly of the Kevorkian Collection.
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