Medieval Art & Manuscripts
Door Plaque with the Head of a Saint
Permanent ExhibitionMetalworkReligious Art
Details
- Author / creator
- Byzantium, Syria(?), Byzantine period
- Object type
- Metalwork
- Date or period
- 500s
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 18.5 × 17.2 × 1.6 cm
- Place of origin
- Byzantium
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1941
- Text
- Unidentified text
- Script
- Gothic textualis
- Language
- Latin
About this object
The original function of this bronze plaque is not known with certainty. It was probably once gilded and may have been affixed to a wooden.
Materials and technique
Bronze
