Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 655
y underthe Khalif Abd-el-Melik (d. a.d.705), the familiar cross raised uponthree steps occurs ; but it de-generates until the vertical limbfinally carries a crescent. Anexample of this is seen on a coppercoin of Horns (Emesa) in Syria,which bears on the obverse a stand-ing figure of the khalif.2… … Fig. 401. Coins. 1. Valentinian II; 2. Theo-dosius I; 3. Arcadius ; 4. Eudoxia ; 5. Hono-rius ; 6. Valentinian III ; 7. Theodosius II ; 8.Marcian ; 9. Eudocia; 10, 11. Pulcheria. (British Museum.) Seals.4 Byzantine seals offer this distinction from those of mediaeval Europe,that almost without…
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