Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14008/23842
Authors: Roman workshop  
Title: Londra, Victoria & Albert Museum. Dittico di Oreste
Start date: 530
End date: 530
Historical Period: Early Byzantine/Late Antique Period
Description: 

Panel of the ivory diptych of consul Rufius Gennadius Probus Orestes who is represented seated on a curule seat, holding the mappa circensis and a sceptre. He is seated between two female figures: the personification of Constantinople with a disk and staff to his right and to his left the personification of Rome holding the fasces. Portraits of Amalasuntha and Athalaric are above the inscription, flanking across. Below the consul two children with sacks of money.

Place: Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom  
Languages: Latin
Medium: ivory (material)
Project: BYZART Project  
Fond: UNIBO Bovini Archive  
Physical type: diptychs
Material and technique: carving (processes)
Data provider: University of Bologna  
License: 
Rights holder: Victoria & Albert Museum  
Appears in Collections:BYZART

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