Cross and Wheel, 8th century

  • Byzantine, Roman

Copper alloy

  • Overall: 6 × 4 7/8 × 1 × 4 3/8 inches (15.2 × 12.4 × 2.5 × 11.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

26.75

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(P. Jackson Higgs, New York, New York, USA)

1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1947, no. 314. Sandin, K. "Liturgy, Pilgramage, and Devotion in Byzantine Objects." Bulletin of the DIA 67 (1993): pp. 48-49; p. 48, fig. 4 (ill.); p. 55.

Byzantine, Roman, Cross and Wheel, 8th century, copper alloy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 26.75.