Reconstruction of a panel from a chance screen

Bode Museum

A highly intricate and detailed piece of decorative art, a fragment from a panel chance screen.

The design is centered on a geometric and interlacing pattern, a central cross, interlaced vines, and rosette motif.

At the very heart of the circular carving is a simple cross with equal arms.

Surrounding the central cross is a complex, knotted pattern of what appears to be interlaced vines and stylized leaves. This interlace pattern is a common motif in early medieval art, particularly in Celtic and Byzantine traditions.

The overall circular design resembles a rosette or a wheel, with four main sections radiating outward from the center.

Late Antique and Early Byzantine Egypt - 3rd - 9th Centuries

English Translation:

barrier plate (?)

Panel from a chance screen (?)

Egypt, 6th century

limestone

The plate might have been part a parapet in a church the room for lay people and priests separated from each other.

Acquired in 1904

Museum of Byzantine Art Inv. 4711

Original Text:

Schrankenplatte (?)

Panel from a Chancel Screen (?)

Ägypten, 6. Jh.

Kalkstein

Die Platte war vielleicht Teil

einer Brüstung, die in einer Kirche

den Raum der Laien und Priester

voneinander trennte.

Erworben 1904

Museum für Byzantinische Kunst Inv. 4711

This is located in Bode Museum.

Supplementary images:

Detail of the reconstruction of a panel from a chance screen, cross in the middle of vines and leaves, located in Bode Museum

Taken on Tuesday 06th of August 2019

Device: Google

Model: Pixel 3 XL

Genre: 6th Century

Source: Berlin, Germany

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