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Panel with Bust of Woman

Culture Byzantine
Origin Egypt
Title Panel with Bust of Woman
Date 300–600 CE
Medium Wood
Dimensions Overall: 9 7/16 × 11 × 1 in. (24.1 × 28 × 2.5 cm)
Object: 9 7/16 × 11 × 1 in. (24 × 27.9 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 60.91

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During the Coptic period in Byzantine Egypt many cultures and religious traditions influenced one another. Geometric pattern and organic, nature-based forms were popular and utilized by practitioners of the Greco-Roman, Ancient Egyptian, and the Christian religions.


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