Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 732
) Servia.3 The two-headed variety does not seemto have been adopted in the Byzantine Empire before the tenth century:4it occurs especially in connexion with the Emperor Theodore Lascaris, and isfound both on textiles and on coins. It was common in Trebizond, and is seencarved in relief at Mistra… … Z#*t>*3*;***ff Fig. 451. End of the ivory casket in Troyes Cathedral. (From an electrotype.) P. 708. docia.5 It may have become Byzantine through the fact that Theodore Lascariswas despot of Nicomedia, in which province Bogaz Keui and other Hittite citieswere situated. It appears in Saracenic…
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