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12 Sections of a Voussoir Arch

12 Sections of a Voussoir Arch

Architectural ElementsCoptic5th century

12 Sections of a Voussoir Arch

5th Century

Description

Architectural fragments with three registers, two of three decorated in relief: the upper register contains an egg-and-leaf pattern and is bordered on its top edge by a narrow undecorated fillet, the middle register contains a cross-based maeander pattern with intervening four-petalled flowers, and the lower register is undecorated.

Classification

Architectural Elements

Technique

Relief

Medium

Limestone

Culture

Coptic

Period

Byzantine period

Century

5th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Provenance

Unknown, formerly of the Kevorkian Collection. Said to be from Bawit.

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