Votive Cross, between 4th and 6th century

  • Byzantine, Roman

Copper alloy

  • Overall: 10 15/16 × 10 3/8 × 1/8 inches (27.8 × 26.4 × 0.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

26.49

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)

A.C.E. "Byzantine Crosses." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 7, no. 8 (May 1926): 95–96, p. 95 (ill.). Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1947, p. 70, no. 294. Sandin, Karl. "Liturgy, Pilgramage, and Devotion in Byzantine Objects." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 67, no. 4 (1993): pp. 46-56 (ill.).

Byzantine, Roman, Votive Cross, between 4th and 6th century, copper alloy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 26.49.