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 93

An illustration from 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, leaf 93 — while her /. is covered by the plate of thering to which one of the chains is attached {see fig./)- Euterpe, who follows,holds a flute in each hand {see fig. g). Thalia has a pedum in her r. handand a comic mask in her left {see fig. k). The last in order is Calliope,wearing a mantle over both… … panels, that containing the lock has a wreath, below which are two doves ; theothers all have a similar design, a vase from which rises a conventional plant,forming a symmetrical scroll-design between two birds. Within is a thinbronze plate with five circular holes, the largest in the centre. In…

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