Rome / Cornice Fragment / Marble

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2173
Object Name: Cornice Fragment
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Cornices
Materials: Marble
Length: 10.6
Width: 29.0
Height: 4.8
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Red brown marble with black and white veins and flecks. Highly polished front, smooth back. Roughly broken short ends. Fine quality. Cornice: sima - shape is fully upturned; cyma reversa, ogee, cavetto, horizontal notch.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Rome
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2173
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2173/0000_00_2173p01.tif

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Full citation: "Rome; Cornice Fragment; Marble." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2173/0000_00_2173p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.