IDENTIFIERS
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id:	52307
accession number:	E.2.1924

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 21 October 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: plaque, front with St.Menas, sides with saints, back inscribed. St. Menas was an Egyptian-born martyr. He served in the Roman army but left following an edict of the emperor Diocletian against the practice of Christianity. Following a declaration of his faith, Menas was tortured and beheaded in AD 295. He was a patron saint of travellers and was thus llinked to St. Christopher.
object type: Roughly rectangular stone amulet with a carved figure the full length of the front. 
2 holes in top that connect to 2 holes in the back.
Proper right side: half size carved figure and the upper part of a second figure.
Proper left side: half size carved figure near the top. Under this it appears that the head of a second figure was scratched into the surface but it was never carved. This may be because the stone surface on the lower PL edge flaked away.
Incised ?Greek text on back and top.
title:	relief

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52307





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: wall painting
category: relief

DATING
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creation date:	500 - 600
creation date earliest:	500
creation date latest:	600
culture:	Coptic-Byzantine


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 1.5

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 5.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 3.2



IMAGES

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width: 760 pixels

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width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
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surrogate: preview
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width: 250 pixels


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surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/E_2_1924_282_29.jpg
height: 570 pixels
width: 760 pixels

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format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/preview_E_2_1924_282_29.jpg
height: 188 pixels
width: 250 pixels