architecture; column

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Object Type: architecture; column
Museum number: 1868,1005.10
Description: Octagonal screen post fragment (lower end); white marble; with grooves for fitting panels.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 6thC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Adulis
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 50 centimetres
Curator's comments: See also C. Giostra & S. Massa, 'Dal Mediterraneo al Mar Rosso: la cristianizzazione della città-porto di Adulis e la diffusione di modelli e manufatti bizantini', Hortus Artium Medievalium 22 (2016) 92-109, esp. 106-8.
Bibliographic references: Munro-Hay 1989 / The British Museum excavations at Adulis, 1868 (p.49); Zazzaro 2013 / The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis and the Eritrean Coastal Region: Previous Investigations and Museum Collections (p.90, 95)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Acquisition notes: Recorded in Ethnography department register vol. 1, 1861-1868, 1903-1907.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1868,1005.10
Conservation

Free entry