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Panel from Petrakis Monastery, dimensions: height: 88 cm, width: 84 cm, thickness: 9 cm.
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Panel, Petrakis Monastery
Area: Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
Date: 10th-11th century
Description:
Marble panel of a screen with relief decoration. On the front of the panel are depicted banded geometrical grids, a cross and a square, with peculiar palmettes on the corners. All these envelop a central disc with an isosceles cross. It comes from Petrakis Monastery, Athens, and it is dated to the tenth – eleventh century. The sculpture was walled in a fountain in the courtyard of the monastery.
Date: 10th-11th century
Description:
Marble panel of a screen with relief decoration. On the front of the panel are depicted banded geometrical grids, a cross and a square, with peculiar palmettes on the corners. All these envelop a central disc with an isosceles cross. It comes from Petrakis Monastery, Athens, and it is dated to the tenth – eleventh century. The sculpture was walled in a fountain in the courtyard of the monastery.