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Museum Information

Museum Name: Louvre Museum

Museum Inventory Code: OA 9063

Museum Inventory/On Loan: On Loan to Museum

Leaf of a five-part diptych: the triumphant Emperor (Justinian?)

TACT #: 14SCU202412041733345769

Collection Louvre Museum

Object Type Sculptures

Material Bone/Ivory

Culture Byzantine

Reaches Clear Status:
December 03, 2025
243 Days to Clear Status

Dimensions

Width 26.8cms

Depth 2.8cms

Culture Note

Date

Era / period: Late Empire (Antiquity -> Roman period)

Date of creation / manufacture: 525 - 550

Place of origin

Constantinople (Byzantium)

Object history

In southern Gaul (Provence?) in the 7th century; collection of Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) in Aix-en-Provence, before 1625; offered by Peiresc to Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679) during his visit to Aix on October 26, 1625; Barberini collection in Rome until 1899; acquired in Paris, in July 1899; placed on deposit by the AGER department in the Department of Decorative Arts on January 13, 1938.

Material Note