Cleveland Museum of Art
Capital with Acanthus and Crosses
- Date
- 400s
- Medium
- limestone
- Culture
- Byzantium, Northern Syria, Byzantine period, 5th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 144272
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
These capitals - the Capital with Acanthus and Crosses and the Engaged Capital with Windblown Acanthus - may have been found in Northern Syria and presumably come from a large and important church. Both capitals are decorated with leaves of acanthus, a fleshy plant with jagged leaves native to the Mediterranean area. One capital is symmetrical with crosses in its ornament, the other is asymmetrical and gives the impression of windblown leaves.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- (J. J. Klejman, New York).
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