IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 51515 accession number: E.174.1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clay column capital with traces of a red and white wash. The clay is nile silt and the capital has been made by a combination of moulding and also throwing on a wheel. The style is a form of 'Corinthian' with spirals perhaps imitating foliage rather than the spirals that are associated with the so-called Ionic form dating to the Greek and Roman periods. The object is said to have come from a church near Argin, North of the Wadi Halfa in Nubia and can be associated with a similar piece (E.173.1912) and also a shaft (E.171.1912). object type: Clay column capital with traces of slip title: capital LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/51515 TECHNIQUES ---------- mouldmade TECHNIQUES ---------- wheelmade CATEGORIES ------ category: architectural element DATING ------ creation date: 300 - 600 creation date earliest: 300 creation date latest: 600 culture: Coptic culture: Roman DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: m value: 0.17 CITATIONS -------- Christian Antiquities in the Nile Valley --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/E_174_1912.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/mid_E_174_1912.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/E_174_1912.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/preview_E_174_1912.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_174_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 709 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_174_1912.jpg height: 536 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_174_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 709 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_174_1912.jpg height: 268 pixels width: 250 pixels