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Plaque with Dancer

Plaque with Dancer

Coptic

Fragment of a convex decorative bone plaque carved in low relief. On the plaque is depicted a nude child dancer (a putto or a cupid?), under what is perhaps an architectural frame. It likely decorated furnishings, like a box or furniture.

Bone

Byzantine period

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