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Doorframe, height: 183, width: 14, thickness: 28 cm.
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Doorframe, Horologion of Andronikos area
Area: Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
Date: 12th century
Description:
Marble doorframe with relief decoration. Interlaced cloven bands create counterbalancing heart-shaped ornaments in a row that enclose five-leaved palmettes, whereas three-leaves sprout from the connecting knots. Plasticity, symmetry and accuracy characterize the ornament, which constitutes a common theme in twelfth century sculpture. It comes from the area of the Horologion of Andronicos in Athens and it is dated to the twelfth century A.D.
Date: 12th century
Description:
Marble doorframe with relief decoration. Interlaced cloven bands create counterbalancing heart-shaped ornaments in a row that enclose five-leaved palmettes, whereas three-leaves sprout from the connecting knots. Plasticity, symmetry and accuracy characterize the ornament, which constitutes a common theme in twelfth century sculpture. It comes from the area of the Horologion of Andronicos in Athens and it is dated to the twelfth century A.D.