Fragment of a stela
- Accession Number
- EC730
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Architecture, Architectural element, Stela
- Period
- Byzantine Period
- Material
- Stone/minerals
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Height: 170mm | Width: 45mm | Depth: 23mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
Licensing details
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- Description
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A long narrow limestone stela relief pattern. It is perhaps part of a Coptic stela. The relief pattern appears fragmentary, but the sides and reverse of the item are clearly worked surfaces, suggesting that this may have been cut from a larger decorated object. The material appears to be dense off-white limestone of good quality. See also EC748.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 29 Jun 2020