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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 162

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e to the first quarter of the fourthcentury.1 A second in the same church,- with isolated figures in the same style(Fig. 70), may either be a copy or a second version of a lost original model. Theremaining figured sarcophagi, with the possible exception of the most debased,which may be later,… … Fig. The Pignatta Sarcophagus, Kavenna. (Eicci.) Christ enthroned, holding a book in his left hand and raising his right to thelevel of his head (Fig. 78), a vigorously treated figure recalling, like that ofthe sarcophagus in Sta Maria in Porto (see below), the Christ of the ivorypyxis at Berlin…

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