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 87
lds abook. The sides are ornamented with an undulatingraised border with serrated edges of acanthus pattern.The back has a cross with a rosette in the centre andat the end of each of the limbs ; and down one side isa band of zigzag ornament. See figure. Byzantine. \2th century. L. 47 in. 1890. At… … IV. SILVER TREASURES. I. The Esquiline Treasure. (Nos. 304-345 with nos. 227-241.) Found in 1793 on the Esquiline Hill, Rome, near the church of Saints Silvester andMartin. The miscellaneous nature of the objects which comprise this treasuresuggests that it was buried at some time of danger, such…
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