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| Keywords: Coptic - Cupboard Doors - Walters 61303.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Anonymous Coptic <br/> These wooden panels are the finest and most complete examples to survive from the Early Byzantine period having been preserved in the dry sands of Egypt The panels made for a cupboard or cabinet or possibly used as window shutters each have richly carved medallions of interlacing bands set with rosettes or eagles A very similar pair of wooden doors is in Athens Benaki Museum inv 9083 century 5 7 Late Antique wood cm 47 4 34 8 4 8 accession number 61 303 12961 Dikran Kelekian Constantinople and Paris by purchase Charles Kelekian New York 1951 by inheritance Walters Art Museum 1951 by purchase Museum purchase 1951 Beyond the Pharaohs Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A D Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Furniture in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Coptic art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Eagles in art | ||||
