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Fragment from a Relief Panel with Two Men (Probably the Harrowing of Hell)

Culture Byzantine
Title Fragment from a Relief Panel with Two Men (Probably the Harrowing of Hell)
Date 900–1100 CE
Medium Steatite and with traces of red pigment
Dimensions Overall: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 75.101.7

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1975, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Robin Symes, London, England

ca. 1970–1975, with Robin Symes, London, England [1]

Notes:

[1] Robin Symes (b. 1939) operated as an art and antiquities dealer in London from about 1970. Robin Symes Limited was founded in 1977 and dissolved in 2005.

Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

August 1–October 31, 2002, "Byzantine Women and Their World," Harvard University Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA

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