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 75
0), p. 160 (no. V), and p. 163. This box, the designs on which are purely secular, wasoriginally made as a jewel-case. Its use for any other purpose is not certain; but as similarobjects were used by the early church as reliquaries or pyxes, and most of the survivingexamples owe their preservation… … 290. Fragment, from the top of a diptych, in the form of a pierced disc betweentwo open scrolls. L. 4 in. Said to be from the Catacombs. To the back adheres a quantity of the plaster in which ithas been imbedded. Cf. the top of the panel, commonly known as the Apotheosis of Romulus inthe British…
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