Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 208
pidly decreasing scale. While Syria and Egypt were stillwithin the empire, that is to say clown to the first Mohammedan conquestsof the seventh century, it was but natural that Alexandria and Antioch,the great artistic and industrial centres where the Hellenistic spirit stillsurvived, should take a… … Fig. 110. Side of an ivory pyxis of the fourth century in the Kaiser Friedrich Museumat Berlin. (From a cast.) P. 195. dating from the period between Constantine and iconoclasm must beascribed to the Syro-Egyptian artistic province; but since Egypt andSyria stood in close relation to each other,…
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