ed in the Treasury of theCathedral, This head-dress has a crown of reddishgold brocade between the broad bands of seedpearls and gold, is studded sumptuously with jewelsin gold sockets, one of these bearing a longishArabic inscription in minute Neshki characters,and has beautiful Byzantine pendants… … CROWN FOUND IN THE TOMB OF THE E^!PRESS CONSTANCE, TREASURY, CATHEDRAL, PALERMOInieri^K^^lielnii, Palermo p. [36 CHAPTER VII THE MARTORANA, THE CAPPELLA PALATINA ANDSOME SMALLER CHURCHES IN PALERMO Tradition assigns the founding of several churchesto the eleventh century, three by Robert Guiscardin…
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