An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 65
calls linuin byssiintm wasexceedingly dear. Everything leads us to sup-pose that it was a linen material of the finestquality. This opinion would seem to be con-firmed by Herodotus and yEschylus. The wordcomes from the Hebrew hutz. Byzantine Pe-riod. Time, about6th to 12th cen-tury A. D.… … Fig. 119. Byzantine Font.
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