Capital with Acanthus and Crosses
400s
- Medium
- limestone
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 53.4 x 75 x 76.2 cm (21 x 29 1/2 x 30 in.)
- Culture
- Byzantium, Northern Syria, Byzantine period, 5th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
These capitals - the Capital with Acanthus and Crosses and the Engaged Capital with Windblown Acanthus - may have been found in Northern Syria and presumably come from a large and important church. Both capitals are decorated with leaves of acanthus, a fleshy plant with jagged leaves native to the Mediterranean area. One capital is symmetrical with crosses in its ornament, the other is asymmetrical and gives the impression of windblown leaves.
