Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 45
er than those of Solomon. The splendid objects of which weread in the pages of Constantine Porphyrogenitus might seem the creationsof a fairy story had we not the confirmatory evidence of the crusaders, whopiled precious reliquaries and vessels of gold and silver into heaps anddivided a booty… … Fig. 10. Panel from the ivory casket from the Cathedral of Veroli in the Victoria andAlbert Museum. Ninth century. P. 215. of the church or for the luxury of their own homes, men shrank from noexpense of gold or labour; they were the citizens of the richest city of theworld. It might fairly seem to…
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