Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1909)

British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 67

An illustration from Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum, 1909, leaf 67 — rts are worn. Ithas round it a rebate into which narrow stripscarved with an ornamental design probably fitted.Two crosses in relief formerly surmounted thecolumns ; traces of one of these are visible on theleft. In the right-hand top comer and in the centreof the bottom fragments have been broken… … ROMAN, EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND BYZANTINE 13 The bookcover of which this panel formed a central plaque was of the kind represented bythe well-known examples in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, at Etchmiadzin in Armenia,in the treasury of the cathedral at Milan, and in the Civic Museum at Ravenna.…

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