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Description
- Medieval low relief
- White marble
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- 12.5
- 5.5
- 7.7
- The small fragment is broken on all sides and discoloured.
- A fragment of marble carved in low relief on two opposing sides. Side A preserves a small section of a curved, trisected band. Weathering has reduced the bands to low, rounded peaks. Side B is cut at two levels. The raised section, now very worn, was once decorated with a guilloche pattern, now largely indecipherable; the rest was brought to a relatively smooth finish, but not decorated.
- Local examples of two-faced chancel barriers can be found in the churches of Ferentino and, further afield, of Rome. See, for example, two ninth-century fragments housed in Rome's Museo dell'Alto Medioevo (Melucco Vaccaro and Paroli 1995, nos 34 and 54).
- Though the larger pattern cannot be determined, this fragment should be associated with the rest of the fragments of tri-band geometrical interlace found on the site.
Record Details
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VM_4167
- Strato di accumulo di terra e materiale edilizio ubicato nell'intera area a Nord-Ovest della trincea B II.
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