The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Casket Plaque

Date:: 10th century
Geography:: Made in Constantinople
Culture:: Byzantine
Medium:: Ivory, traces of polychromy
Dimensions:: a: 2 9/16 x 3 7/16 x 1/4 in. (6.5 x 8.7 x 0.6 cm) b: 3 9/16 x 1 x 1/16 in. (9 x 2.5 x 0.2 cm) c: 1 x 3 1/2 x 1/16 in. (2.6 x 8.9 x 0.2 cm)
Classification:: Ivories
Credit Line:: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number:: 17.190.136a-c

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 300

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in Greek: (above and on right side of panel [recorded in MMA as illegible; given by Goldschmidt, see ref., as follows]): KE _POCH_A_ON[TON BACI_EA _AH]_POC TON IHCOVN K(ai) EKPEMACAN AVTON (trans.: And they brought [the King of Ai] to Joshua and hanged him., by VO 1945).
Provenance

[ George Brauer, Paris (sold 1912)]; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (1912 - 1913); Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan(1913–1917)
See also
What
Bone (6,328)

Ivory (5,389)

Plaques (2,403)

Polychromy (585)

Caskets (102)
Where
Asia (68,071)

Turkey (1,723)

Marmara (242)

Istanbul (103)
When
A.D. 500-1000 (6,672)
In the Museum
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Balkan Peninsula, 500–1000 A.D.