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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 223

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asle,and that the centre panel representedthe emperor himself. This is suggestedby the presence of the bodyguard andby the fact that the consul is humblystanding offering a scroll, instead ofproudly seated as always in the absenceof his sovereign. Whatever the true inter-pretation, the style of the… … Fig. 119. stasius (a. d.Museum.) Diptych of the Consul Ana-517). (Victoria and Albert 1 Westwood, Fictile Ivories, 365, No. 5 ; W. Meyer, as above, p. 50, and PI. I and II. Thewinged Victories recall the scheme of two winged genii holding portrait medallions whichfrequently occur on pagan…

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