Scene of Sacrifice

Description The relief is of a funeral scene with seven people gathered around a garlanded altar making a sacrifice and paying their respects to the deceased, whose portrait appears in a niche, also garlanded, above the altar. The beaded borders above and below the relief are characteristic of late antique silverware and suggest a date not earlier than the 4th century. The panel is broken at both ends but is intact on the upper and lower edges; the back surface has a tapering hollow characteristic of a bone.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/18/1982	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Aleppo, Syria]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1913