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Title: Byzantine Museum of Holy Bishopric of Tamasos and Oreinis (Cyprus): Cross (TA080)
Start date: 900
End date: 1099
Historical Period: Middle Byzantine Period
Description: 

A hollow cross with rounded edges. It was used as eulogia or reliquary. This part of the cross shows Virgin Mary in the iconographic type of Kyriotissa at the centre surrounded by the four evangelists in medallions. Provenance: Church of Saint Epiphanios, Saint Epiphanios Oreinis

Size: 21.5 x 15 x 1.3 cm
Place: Byzantine Museum of Holy Bishopric of Tamasos and Oreinis, Cyprus  
Languages: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Medium: alloy
brass (alloy)
Project: BYZART Project  
Fond: OUC Byzantine Museum of Holy Bishopric of Tamasos and Oreinis  
Physical type: crosses (visual works)
Material and technique: casting (process)
relief (sculpture techniques)
punching (surface marking technique)
Data provider: Byzantine Museum of Holy Bishopric of Tamasos and Oreinis  
License: All rights reserved
Rights holder: Byzantine Museum of Holy Bishopric of Tamasos and Oreinis  
Appears in Collections:BYZART

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