LOT 1117 Byzantine Reliquary Cross Pendant Plate
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10th-12th century AD. A bronze frontal section of an enkolpion, with the representation of crucified Jesus among Saint Mary and Saint John; Christ dressed in a long tunic (colobium) decorated with parallel stripes (clavi) and patterned hatches, his head turned to the right; his wounds on the cross are marked by nails; the cross standing upon a small hill, identified by rare inscription '? ????? ???????' (a place of a skull, Matthew 27:33), indicating Golgota; the titulum with inscription '?(????)? X(?? ???)C' (Jesus Christ), and the sun (left) with the moon (right); the central inscription corresponds to the words of the Gospel of John 19:26: 'here is your son, (??? ? ? {??} ? {C}?? ) here is your Mother (???? ? ???{?}? C??)'. Cf. Wamser, L., Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas Östliches Erbe, München, 2004, item 258, for type. 55 grams, 86mm (3 1/4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market; formerly in a 1980s collection. Usually the reliquary crosses or enkolpia, were composed of two separate halves, inside of which a relic of a saint was contained, this could have been a piece of cloth or a bone. This extraordinary piece is very rare due to containing part of the Gospel of John about the Crucifixion.
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