Byzantine sandstone grave stele with painted inscription 6th - 7th...

Byzantine sandstone grave stele with painted inscription
6th - 7th century AD; height cm 60; A rectangular sandstone grave stele with engraved and painted decoration: a Chi-Rho christogram into a painted red circle with green background, below a greek inscrption in ten lines picked out in red paint with wavy lines to the edge; on the bottom a kantharos painted in green; Ex BFA, Auction 36, lot 177; From a private collection, London, formed 1970-1980.