Door Plaque with the Head of a Saint

Cleveland Museum of Art

Door Plaque with the Head of a Saint

Date
500s
Medium
bronze
Culture
Byzantium, Syria(?), Byzantine period
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The original function of this bronze plaque is not known with certainty. It was probably once gilded and may have been affixed to a wooden.

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