Architectural frieze plaque
Culture: Phrygian
Date: ca. 550-500 B.C.
Probable place made:Düver, Turkey
Medium: Painted terracotta
Dimensions:
12 11/16 × 18 7/8 × 2 7/8 in. (32.3 × 48 × 7.3 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan J. Berk
Object number: 89.59.1
Provenance: Harlan J. Berk, Chicago, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1989
Label Text
Frieze plaques such as this were used to protect and decorate the edge of a building's wooden roof. This plaque closely resembles others found at the site of Düver, Turkey in the 1960s.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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