Currently not on view
Reliquary cross with the Virgin,
probably 10th century
Middle Byzantine
y1930-9
Information
Title
Reliquary cross with the Virgin
Dates
probably 10th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
9 x 5.8 x 0.5 cm (3 9/16 x 2 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1930-9
Place Made
Palestine
Period
Materials
Subject
Gruneisen Coll.; Museum purchase from E. von Scherling in 1930
- Oskar Wulff, Altchristliche Bildwerke, (Berlin: Reimer, 1909)., no. 918ff
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Williams Matthew Flinders Petrie, Amulets: illustrated by the Egyptian collection in University College, London, (London: Martin Press, 1914).
, p. 33; pl. 24, no. 139 - 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. 77; no. 3401
- 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)., cat. no. 190, p. 171
