Altar
Statue Base (uncertain)
39-25-1
From: Israel | Jerusalem | Palestine
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 39-25-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Israel | Jerusalem | Palestine |
| Date Made | 200-399 CE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Stone |
| Iconography | Human Head | Winged Animal | Bird Head |
| Description | Rectangular, with low foot at each corner. High relief decoration on the four sides with 4 human-headed winged animals, the heads in full relief, one at each corner, body of each extending towards middle of the side of the stone and the middle of the end of the stone. At the middle of each side is a bird head. There is a small rectangular depression in each corner of the top surface inside a raised border; at the edge of one depression is a deep piercing |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mary Virginia Blandy, 1939 |
| Other Number | 99-16-1 - Found in Collection Number |
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