Fragment of a Relief
250-300 CE
Dimensions
6.5" x 16" (object) 10-7/8" x 19.5" (mount)
Provenance
Seleucia Pieria (Turkey, Hatay). (By 1937-1939), sold [1]; to the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940. [1] Richard Stillwell, 1941, "Catalogue of Sculpture," in Antioch-on-the-Orontes III: The Excavations 1937-1939, pp. 123-124, cat. 354 (Find number: Pc479-S621). This object was purchased, rather than excavated, by the expedition and said to come from Seleucia Pieria.
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