Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 619
a purple ground, and the inscription, In the reign of Romanus andChristophorus, the most Christian emperors.* The piece is thus dated atthe close of the first quarter of the tenth century, as Romanus was crowned ina.d. 920, while his son Christophorus, named joint emperor in the folio wing-year,… … Fig. 374. Silk textile, with names of Constantine VIII and Basil II, at Diisseldorf,made between a. d. 976 and a.d. 1025. (From a water-colour by Herr Paul Schulze in theVictoria and Albert Museum.) Diisseldorf.2 It also has lions upon a purple ground, and an inscription mentioningConstantine VIII…
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