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Enkolpion with the Crucifixion (front) and Saints Theodore and George (back)

1080–1120

Byzantium, Constantinople, Byzantine period

silver gilt and cloisoné enamel
Overall: 5.1 x 4.1 cm (2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.94
Location: 105 Byzantine
  • -1972
    Safani Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1972-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1972.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (1973). p.108, cat. no. 83, repr. p. 68 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 43 archive.org
    Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. cat. no. 111, p. 164
    Pitarakis, Brigitte. A silver enkolpion from Palaiologan Constantinople in context. Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2010. p. 294, fig 2a-b
  • The Glory of Byzantium. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3-July 6, 1997).
    Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).
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