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 115
88 EARLY CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITIES all the other male figures, he holds a book. To his /. is St. Peter holding along cross over his /. shoulder; to his r. St. Paul. Both Apostles have thedistinguishing characteristics of Early Christian Art, St. Peter thick hair andshort beard, St. Paul scanty hair and… … has her mantle drawn over her head, or wears a veil, with a cross above theforehead. To her /. is St. John the Evangelist, youthful and beardless; to her;-. a bearded saint resembling St Peter, and probably intended for St. James.To the interior still adhere small fragments of bronze plates showing…
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