Catalogue of early Christian antiquities and objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography of the British museum; (1901)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 103
338. Horse-trappings (phalerae), partly gilt, formed of nine plates, and a buckleto /. The plates are of two different designs, the first, four in number, arecircular and embossed with three lions heads and an eagle respectively. Each hasa leaf-shaped projection at the top and a pendant at the… … the eagle being an inverted crescent. The plates of the second type alternatewith the others : each is a broad oval, consisting of two pelta-like ornaments, thecurves of which form the outer edges, and having an applied quatrefoil in thecentre. See figure. L. 25 in. Visconti, pi. xxiv. SILVER…
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