FragmentsCoptic5th-7th century

Plaque with maenad or personification

c. 400-640 CE

Classification

Fragments

Technique

Carved

Medium

Bone

Culture

Coptic

Period

Byzantine period, Early

Century

5th-7th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

max. H. 9.5 × W. 4.5 × D. 3 cm (3 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.)

Provenance

[Charles Dikran Kelekian, New York (by 1982)], inherited by; his wife, Beatrice Kelekian, New York, (1982-1984), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.

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