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Source Description
The relief is of a funeral scene with seven people gathered around a garlanded altar making a sacrifice and paying their respects to the deceased, whose portrait appears in a niche, also garlanded, above the altar. The beaded borders above and below the relief are characteristic of Late Antique silverware and suggest a date not earlier than the 4th century. The panel is broken at both ends but is intact on the upper and lower edges; the back surface has a tapering hollow characteristic of a bone.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
8130
label
Panel with a Scene of Sacrifice
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
8130
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Panel with a Scene of Sacrifice
description
The relief is of a funeral scene with seven people gathered around a garlanded altar making a sacrifice and paying their respects to the deceased, whose portrait appears in a niche, also garlanded, above the altar. The beaded borders above and below the relief are characteristic of Late Antique silverware and suggest a date not earlier than the 4th century. The panel is broken at both ends but is intact on the upper and lower edges; the back surface has a tapering hollow characteristic of a bone.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Aleppo, Syria]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
4th-5th century (Late Antique)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
panels (surface components)
boxes (containers)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
5.3
height
10
dimensionsRaw
H: 2 1/16 x W: 3 15/16 in. (5.3 x 10 cm)
Source extras
med
bone
creator_ids
6191
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
358
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
59b66f16505f920f