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CultureCoptic
Datelate 5th-early 6th century C.E.
MediumLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 62 inches (157.48 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-11
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 104
Collections
Provenance

Found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt;

 

With Paul Mallon, New York, by 1948;

 

Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

 

Published References

Gary Vikan, Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1994), 33, 35, 38n1, fig. 15.1.

 

Kirsten Krumeich, Spätantike Bauskulptur aus Oxyrhynchos. Lokale Produktion – äußere Einflüsse. Teilband I: Text. Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz. Kunst im Ersten Jahrtausend. Reihe A: Grundlagen und Monumente, Band 12 (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2003), 77n549, 78n562, 85, 104n715, 162n1164, 196, fig. 27.      

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