Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 712
ound a central octagonwhich has always been popular in the East for the arrangement of glazedtiles and inlaid carving in wood,1 and appears both in the Early Christianart of Egypt, as in the tympanum of the Djami Ali at Dashlut,2 and inthe mosaics of Sta Costanza at Rome (p. 333). A similar… … Fig. 436. Nielloed ornament on a silver dish of the sixth century, from Cyprus, in the British Museum. in the ancient art of Mesopotamia, and may have become extensivelyknown through its adoption by the textile art. It spread rapidly west-ward under the Roman Empire, being largely used in those…
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