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 73
ithin a pearled border. Plate V. L. 1 in. Franks Bequest, 1897. Obtained in Alexandria. 284. Gold reliquary, octagonal, with hingedloop for suspension. The front is dividedby a horizontal line into two parts, on theupper of which is the Nativity, on the lowerthe Adoration of the Magi, both… … JEWELS, PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, ETC. 47 are seen the heads of the ox and the ass. In the lower zone the Virgin isseated in a chair on the /. witii the Child in her arms: before her head is astar. Before her advance the three Magi in oriental costume, and on eachside is a tree with double top. On the…
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