Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford), 1876-1960 · London : Methuen and co · leaf 102
s of four saints (PI. IX, 8).Jewellery ornamented in this manner is of great rarity;being executed nearly always upon pure gold, it hasseldom escaped the crucible. Judging from the mosaics, as, for example, theportraits of Justinian in the churches of San Vitaleand Sant Apollinare Nuovo at Ravenna,… … BYZANTINE with jewels attached to them by loops. Coins, as inRoman times, were frequently mounted as brooches ina beaded or open-work edging. Bow-shaped broocheswere worn, but not after the sixth century. Threeinscribed examples of about the fourth century, one ofthem of gold, are in the British…
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