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| Keywords: Byzantine - Casket with Warriors in Combat - Walters 71115 - Side B.jpg On this casket traditional representations of the Labors of Herakles Hercules have been transformed into scenes of curly-haired cupids engaged in various forms of military combat The object thus gives us a good impression of the lighter at times comical quality of Byzantine secular art Such boxes were probably used to hold valuables or important documents century 10 11 Medieval bone ivory wood cm 11 30 17 8 accession number 71 115 19456 Tycon and Smith Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Artful Deception The Craft of the Forger The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Edsel Eleanor Ford House Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art Columbia; Elvehjem Museum of Art Madison; Crocker Art Museum Sacramento; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Rochester; The Barnum Museum Bridgeport 1987-1992 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license Byzantine ivory in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
