Lot 57
57
A COPTIC LIMESTONE ARCHITECTURAL RELIEF FRIEZE, interlacing spirals and lilies with vine leaves and grapes in one roundel, a lion with upraised tail in the other conjoining roundel, 5th-6th Century A.D., reputedly from Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchos)

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A COPTIC LIMESTONE ARCHITECTURAL RELIEF FRIEZE, interlacing spirals and lilies with vine leaves and grapes in one roundel, a lion with upraised tail in the other conjoining roundel, 5th-6th Century A.D., reputedly from Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchos)
25¼ x 13in. (64 x 33cm.)

Lot Essay

Cf. D. Buckton (ed.), Byzantium: treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture from British Collections, British Museum, London, 1994, p. 65, nos 54(a) and 54(b) for similar frieze fragments now in the Liverpool Museum (1966.155½)

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