Currently not on view
Pendant with Saint Thekla between lions,
5th–6th century
Early Byzantine
y1968-136
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Information
Title
Pendant with Saint Thekla between lions
Dates
5th–6th century
Medium
Gold
Dimensions
h. (with suspension loop) 2.6 cm, w. 1.7 cm (1 x 5/8 in.)
pendant: h. 1.9 (3/4) x d. 0.01 cm
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
Object Number
y1968-136
Place Made
Turkey, Constantinople
Period
Materials
Subject
Museum purchased from Mathias Komor, New York in 1968.
- Alfreda J. Murck, "Acquisitions 1968", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105., p. 94
- Claudia Nauerth, "Nachlese von Thekla-Darstellungen", in Guntram Koch, ed., Studien zur frühchristlichen Kunst, (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1982-)., pp. 14-18. Enarged illustration on pl. VI
- 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. 63; p. 80
- David J. Goa, Linda Distad and Matthew Wangler, Anno Domini: Jesus through the Centuries, (Edmonton: Provincial Museum of Alberta, 2000),
- Ioli Kalavrezou, Angeliki E. Laiou, et al., Byzantine women and their world, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)., p. 300; cat. no. 183
- A. Lazaridou, ed., Transition to Christianity: art of late antiquity, 3rd-7th century AD, (New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation; Athens: In collaboration with the Byzantine and Christian Museum, 2011)., p. 80; no. 4