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Panel, height: 103, width: 83, thickness: 10 cm.
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Panel, Thisseion Collection
Area: Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
Date: 11th century
Description:
Marble panel with relief decoration. Interlaced bands create a rectangular frame, and in it a rhombus and rotae envelop leafy rosettes. Characteristic is the complex formation of the nexus. It is a common decorative subject in Byzantine art during the tenth – eleventh century, found in various combinations. It comes from Athens and it was formerly part of the Thisseion Collection. It is dated to the eleventh century A.D.
Date: 11th century
Description:
Marble panel with relief decoration. Interlaced bands create a rectangular frame, and in it a rhombus and rotae envelop leafy rosettes. Characteristic is the complex formation of the nexus. It is a common decorative subject in Byzantine art during the tenth – eleventh century, found in various combinations. It comes from Athens and it was formerly part of the Thisseion Collection. It is dated to the eleventh century A.D.