Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 647
rich Museums. 622 VARIOUS OBJECTS without covers, and suspended from chains; but in a few examples a handle is usedinstead of chains and there is a pierced domical cover.1 A considerable groupof bronze censers with New Testament subjects in high relief (Fig. 393) appearsto date from the sixth or… … Fig. 395. Bronze lamp-holder (polycandelon) for glass lamps. (British Museum.) sentations in miniatures, the usual type of censer resembled a cup or chalicewith a rather high foot : it also seems to have had no cover. Metal lamps in the First Period continued the traditions of Early Christiantimes:…
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