Byzantine Museum Athens

Department Archive
Collection Byzantine Research Fund
Reference No. BRF/02/01/01/043
Level Item
Place Byzantine Museum
Athens
Dates 1888-1890
Donor/Creator Weir Schultz, Mr Robert
Barnsley, Mr Sidney Howard
Scope and Content Relief marble closure slab (on the right) - Fragment of marble relief icon frame (on the left).Now in Byzantine Museum Athens. Further annotation in pencil survives at the back of the photograph.
Further information The slab, which is decorated with an interlace cross, geometrical and figurative motifs under an archivolt, has been dated to the 11th c.The fragment has been dated to the Palaiologan period (13-14th c.).