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Archangel ivory information


Archangel ivory
on display in the museum
Materialivory
Size428 x 143 mm and 9 mm thick
CreatedAD 525-550
PlaceConstantinople
Present locationRoom 41 of the British Museum, London

The Archangel ivory is the largest surviving Byzantine ivory panel, now in the British Museum in London. Dated to the early 6th century, it depicts an archangel holding a sceptre and imperial orb.

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