Currently not on view
Reliquary cross with St. Peter,
10th–12th century
Middle Byzantine
y109
Information
Title
Reliquary cross with St. Peter
Dates
10th–12th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
9.9 x 4.2 x 1.2 cm (3 7/8 x 1 5/8 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum Collection
Object Number
y109
Place Made
Palestine
Inscription
Obverse, inscribed about figure: “MH”;
Reverse, inscribed, above figure of St. Peter;
Period
Materials
Unknown provenance; possibly part of the Old Collection; with the Museum by at least 1928
- Dorothy Eugenia Miner, Early Christian and Byzantine art: an exhibition held at The Baltimore Museum of Art, (Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947)., p. 139, no. 709; pl. 51
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., no. 171; p. 145
