Tools and EquipmentByzantine1st millennium CE

Key

1st Millennium CE

Classification

Tools and Equipment

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Brass

Culture

Byzantine

Period

Byzantine period

Century

1st millennium CE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

5.2 x 3.1 cm (2 1/16 x 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Excavated from Antioch, sector 17-O (no. a-499-U554) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

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