About the Artwork
4th or 6th century
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Roman
Byzantine
Copper alloy
Overall: 5 3/4 × 5 1/4 inches (14.6 × 13.3 cm)
Metalwork
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase
26.45
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(P. Jackson Higgs, New York, NY, USA)
-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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A.C.E. "Byzantine Crosses" Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 8, 1926, pp. 95-96, p. 95 (ill)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Byzantine, Roman, votive cross, 4th or 6th century, copper alloy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 26.45.
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