Door Plaque with the Head of a Saint
500–599
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 18.5 x 17.2 x 1.6 cm (7 5/16 x 6 3/4 x 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Byzantium, Syria(?), Byzantine period
About
The original function of this bronze plaque is not known with certainty. It was probably once gilded and may have been affixed to a wooden.