Byzantine Book Cover with Icon (Illustration)

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by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 21 June 2018

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Byzantine Book Cover with Icon — A Byzantine book cover with an ivory icon of the crucifixion. Gilded silver with crystal, glass and sapphire cabochons. Constantinople, 11th century CE. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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© Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Republished for educational/scholarly use under the museum's Open Access for Scholarly Content initiative. Original image by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 21 June 2018 under the following license: Copyright. You cannot use, copy, distribute, or modify this item without explicit permission from the author. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Art, T. M. M. o. (2018, June 21). Byzantine Book Cover with Icon. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8960/byzantine-book-cover-with-icon/

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