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Wooden ornament

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Turned wooden furniture leg or fitting, from the great city founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian at the site where his lover Antinous drowned in the Nile, and named after him Antinoopolis. The city became the dominant provincial city of Upper Egypt, and flourished throughout the Byzantine Period.

Present location

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN

Inventory number

1914:215

Dating

BYZANTINE PERIOD

Archaeological Site

EL-SHEIKH `ABADA/ANTINOOPOLIS

Category

FURNITURE DECORATION

Material

WOOD

Technique

TURNED

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