Reliquary in the Form of a Shrine

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Reliquary in the Form of a Shrine

Period Byzantine Empire (Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)

Place of OriginPossibly Syria or Jordan [Byzantine Empire]

Date6th-7th century

Dimensions9 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (23.5 × 19.7 × 19.7 cm)

Mediumlimestone

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of the Popplestone Family

Object number

2006.91

Not on View

DescriptionOf square openwork form, with four corner columns and four columns engaged to the central chamber, cross and dentate design

Exhibition HistoryThe Dayton Art Institute, The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life (featuring the Brooklyn Museum exhibition: Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire), September 21, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (no catalogue).

Comparative ReferencesSee also Padgett, Michael, Transition to Christianity, Art of Late Antiquity 3rd to 7th. Century AD New York, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Fuondation (USA), 2011, p. 131, Cat. N° 91.