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sculpture
Object Type
sculpture
Museum number
1868,1005.15
Description
Fragment of relief sculpture; white marble; carved with a cross within a wreath.
Cultures/periods
Early Byzantine
Production date
6thC
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
William West Goodfellow
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Adulis
Materials
marble
Technique
carved
Dimensions
Height:
210 millimetres
(max)
Thickness:
26 millimetres
(uncarved portion)
Width:
265 millimetres
(max)
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. Massa & Giostra 2019, 315-52, at 347-52.
Bibliographic references
Munro-Hay 1989 / The British Museum excavations at Adulis, 1868
(p.49, pl.Vb)
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
Subjects
cross
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
Acquisition date
1868
Acquisition notes
Recorded in Ethnography department register vol. 1, 1861-1868, 1903-1907.
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1868,1005.15
Conservation
Treatment
: 11.03.2020
treatment
: 26 oct 2022