Currently not on view
Reliquary cross with Virgin,
10th–11th century
Byzantine
y1937-220
Information
Title
Reliquary cross with Virgin
Dates
10th–11th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
8.3 x 4.8 x 0.7 cm (3 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1937-220
Place Made
Palestine
Inscription
Inscription [in Greek?] above figure of the Virgin: MHTP OV [approximation, see accession card for reproduction of inscription].
Period
Materials
Purchased by the Museum in 1937
- 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
