Details
| Artist | Byzantine, Roman |
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| Date | 9th century |
| Medium | Copper alloy |
| Dimensions | Overall: 3 1/4 × 1 13/16 × 3/8 inches (8.3 × 4.6 × 1 cm) |
| Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase |
| Accession Number | 26.74 |
| Department | European Sculpture and Dec Arts |
| On View | European: Medieval and Renaissance W242, Level 2 (see map) |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Inscriptions | Inscribed, above Virgin's head: MHPTV |
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Provenance
(P. Jackson Higgs, New York, New York, USA);
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
A.C.E. "Byzantine Crosses." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 8 (1926): pp. 95-96, p. 95 (ill.).
Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1947, no. 302b.
Sandin, K. "Liturgy, Pilgramage, and Devotion in Byzantine Objects." Bulletin of the DIA 67 (1993): pp. 46-56.
Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1947, no. 302b.
Sandin, K. "Liturgy, Pilgramage, and Devotion in Byzantine Objects." Bulletin of the DIA 67 (1993): pp. 46-56.
