Reliquary in the Form of a Shrine
Reliquary in the Form of a Shrine
Period
Byzantine Empire
(Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)
Place of Originpossibly Syria or Jordan, Byzatine 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.
about 578-629
Probably mid-first century
Probably first half of first century
obverse 233-235 CE, reverse mid 3rd century CE
1185-1333 (Kamakura Period)
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