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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 670

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 670
, and in the Alcuin Bible in the British Museum. ICONOGRAPHY 645 the well-known sarcophagus of the Mourning Women from Sidon, whichis of the fourth century b. c.1 Another, but less common attitude expres-sive of grief, in which both arms hang at full length before the body whilethe hands are… … Fis. 109. The Pentecost : miniature of the early twelfth century in the Psalter of QueenMelisenda in the British Museum. (Egerton 1139.) P. 662. sixth century in the Cotton Bible. The position of the right hand justissuing from the fold of the mantle, which almost appears to restrain it,as in the…

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