Description
The figure is carved in intaglio and was inlaid with colored wax, now missing. As the indented border at the left shows, it was the inlay of a box or piece of furniture.
Exhibitions
Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.
Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A.D.. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1989.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
