One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"

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One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God",

5th–6th century

Eastern Mediterranean, Byzantine
2000-255

Information

Title
One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"
Dates

5th–6th century

Medium
Bronze with silver inlay
Dimensions
2.3 x 2.3 x 0.6 cm (7/8 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Gift of Emily Townsend Vermeule, Honorary Degree Holder of the Class of 1989, and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, in memory of Catherine Comstock Vermeule
Object Number
2000-255
Inscription
Inlaid in silver, two letters in each corner: [see accession card for reproduction] ; "Grace of God"; Attached to the cross in the center is the abbreviated name of St. Theodoros: [see accession card for reproduction]; On either side of the cross: ("one ounce");
Culture
Byzantine
Type
bronzes, weights
Materials
bronze, silver
Subject
saints, religious symbolism, crosses (objects), Christianity

Purchased from Robert Hecht, Jr., in 2000.

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