Currently not on view
Fragment of a plaque with Aphrodite,
4th–5th century CE
Egyptian
y1933-27
Information
Title
Fragment of a plaque with Aphrodite
Dates
4th–5th century CE
Medium
Bone
Dimensions
13.5 x 7.1 x 1.6 cm (5 5/16 x 2 13/16 x 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1933-27
Place Made
Africa, Egypt
Culture
Materials
Acquired by John Khayat at an unknown date from an unknown source; purchased by the Museum in 1933 from Khayat.
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., no. 171; p. 145
- Susan Heuck Allen, Survival of the gods: classical mythology in Medieval art, (Providence, RI: David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, 1987)., p. 135, fig. 38
- Archer St. Clair, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The carver's art, Medieval sculpture in ivory, bone, and horn, (New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989)., cat. no. 58
