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
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… … vessel once had a lining of this metal. On the bottom and within the footare impressions of three stamps {see figure) similar to those on the plate,no. 397, one at least, the cruciform example, being identical with fig. a. The SILVER TREASURES 89 stamps have been mutilated by the lathe, which shows…
Art objects · Christian antiquities
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