Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 92
mmedan rule PersianMesopotamia maintained itsancient reputation. It washere, at Mosul, that the artof encrusting bronze withsilver reached its great de-velopment in the twelfthand thirteenth centuries:the fashion must have beenof much earlier date, andfrom this part of the world it was probably… … Fig. 38. Wooden cross set with glass pastes, fifthcentury, in the Cairo Museum. (Catalogue general: KoptischeKunst, No. 8804.) c 68 THE EAST its full importance for the history of Christian art. Meanwhile, thoughthe spade has not yet been employed, we are beginning to learn something-of the…
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