Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 646
inlaid with silver, and this process is essentially the same as that adoptedon a larger scale upon the bronze doors. The unit is the solidus orvofjuafjia, and both the Greek and Latin denominations are employed; theweights range from fractions of the solidus, to the ounce (six solidi), thepound,… … Fig. 394. Development of the censer, Fig. 393. occasionally of princes. Sometimes there are busts which may be imperial,and more rarely figures of saints, a remarkable pound weight with twomilitary saints being in the British Museum (Fig. 42). The date ofmost examples is the sixth century: examples…
Art, Byzantine · Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism
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