Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 667
show the mounted lance-bearer transfix-ing a figure on the ground.3 The superstitions to which these objectsbear witness probably spread from Alexandria about the beginning ofour era. 1 Derivatives of this type are numerous in Russia. Cf. La Collection Khanenko (Kieff),■Croix et images, 1899, PI.… … Fig. 407. Head-piece with the Descent into Hell: from a MS. of the twelfth century in theMonastery, Mount Sinai (Sinait. 339). (Hautes Etudes: N. Kondakoff.) CHAPTER XII ICONOGRAPHY It is impossible in a general work like the present to deal with all thesubjects represented in Byzantine art. An…
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