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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 166

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n the mausoleum of Galla Placidia. One, tradi-tionally known as the tomb of Honorius, has on the front the Lamb standingunder a gabled arch before the Cross, on the arms of which are two doves, whileto right and left are crosses between round arches with shell niches.2 On theother, called the tomb… … Fig. 81. Sarcophagus of S. Barbatianus in the Cathedral at Ravenna. (Ricci.) P. 140. appears the sacred monogram in the Constantinian form, though, as in othercases at Kavenna, the loop of the rho is continued in a downward direction,giving it somewhat the appearance of a Latin E.3 There does not…

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