Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 665
ople in a.d. 944.6 A green marble paten (?) in the Monastery of Xeropotamou on Mount Athoshas in the centre the Virgin censed by angels, surrounded by angels vested aspriests and bearing liturgical objects, and (in an outer row) by Apostles kneelingbefore the Throne (cf. Divine Liturgy). This… … Fig. 406. Silver signet with Medusa head and inscription : Lord, preserve the wearer,worn as an amulet. (British Museum.) The former class were mostly of bronze or copper, though a rare enamelledmedallion is now in the Louvre (p. 499). They bear inscriptions warningthe spirit of the disease to take…
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