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Fragment of decorated wall
Public Domain

Fragment of decorated wall

450

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Fragment of decorated wall

450

Physical Qualities Marble, 26 x 26 3/4 x 3 in. (66 x 67.9 x 7.6 cm.)
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund
Object Number 1940.170a
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Late Antique and Early Christian Art", November 18, 1977-February 12, 1978

Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum, "Antioch: The Lost Roman City", October 7, 2000-January 7, 2001, no. 65, pp. 178-179, ill.; circulated to Cleveland Museum of Art, March 18-June 3, 2001, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, September 6-December 30, 2001
Richard Stillwell, ed., "Antioch-on-the-Orontes", Vol. III, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941, no. 231, pp. 169-170, ill. pl. 42.
Kurt Weitzmann, ed., "Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century," New York: 1979, no. 594, pp. 667-68.
Christine Strube, 'Die Kapitelle von Qasr ibn Wardan: Antiochia un Konstantinopel im 5. Jahrhundert,' "JAC 26," 1983, pp. 79-81, pl. 18c.
Marlia Mundell Mango, "Silver from Early Byzantium: The Kaper Koraon and Related Treasures," 1986, no. 100, pp. 272-273.
Kondoleon, Christine, ed. Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with the Worcester Art Museum, 2000, p. 178, ill.

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