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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 574

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 574
neum. On theupper limb of the cross is a label with IC XC, and below the arms, IA€0 YC CY | I AY rMP CY. At. the extremities of the transverse limb arediminutive figures of the Virgin and St. John in niello, and at the top repre-sentations of the sun and moon. On the back is a foliate design boldly… … Fig. 336. Front of the jewelled gold cross of Justin II in St. Peters at Rome. (After Bock.) with niello, having on the front in niello Christ on the Cross, wearing thecolobium as in the Monza example. Above are the sun and moon, and on thetitulus at the top of the cross the words +PEZ PETNANTI…

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