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Mosaic Fragment with Grazing Camel
Byzantine · 5th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Asfar Bros., Beirut, Lebanon, by 1968; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Winnetka, IL, 1968 [according to correspondence in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, December 29, 1970.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- "Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 153, November 11, 2012–present.
- Art Insitute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012. "
Literature
Published references
- "Raff, Katharine A. 2022. ""The Waiting-Servant Motif in a Late Antique Textile in Chicago: Iconography, Visuality, and Materiality"" Arts 11, no. 3: 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11030064. Note 77.
- Karen B. Alexander, ""From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,"" in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 39.
- J.S., ""Notes on Six Late Antique Mosaics,"" Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 65, 5 (November 1971), pp. 1-6"
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