Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 241
between which are in many cases heads inprofile resembling coin types (Fig. 132). The last feature makes it almost certainthat pieces of silver plate supplied the carvers with many of their models,for a common method of ornamentation in Graeco-Roman plate was to inlayin the borders of dishes or… … Fig. 130. End of an ivory casket of the ninth-tenth century in the Victoria andAlbert Museum. P. 215. in the Roman treasures of Boscoreale, Bernay, and Pompeii are ornamentedwith putti and animals so closely allied to those of the caskets that therecan be little doubt as to one at least of the…
Art, Byzantine · Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism
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