Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 212
; but new panels withreligious subjects seem to have been made at least as early as the sixth 1 As early as the Council of Mopsuestia (a.d. 550) there was a custodian of the diptychs,and reference is made to diptycha in qiiibus memoriae sacerdotum istius optimae civitatis scripta con-tinents-… … Fig. 113. Ivory pyxides of the sixth century : Daniel between the lions ; the martyrchof St. Menas. (British Museum.) Pp. 209, 210. further than the ninth century: almost all existing examples date from thetenth century and later. The triptych was a natural development fromthe diptych, and numerous…
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