Reliquary Cross, between 8th and 9th century

  • Byzantine, Roman

Copper alloy

  • Overall: 3 1/4 × 1 13/16 × 3/8 inches (8.3 × 4.6 × 1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

26.63

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Inscribed, on rear: [illegible]

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

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

Sandin, K. "Liturgy, Pilgramage, and Devotion in Byzantine Objects." Bulletin of the DIA 67 (1993): pp. 46-56.

Byzantine, Roman, Reliquary Cross, between 8th and 9th century, copper alloy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 26.63.