cameo

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Object Type
Museum number: 1880,0614.24
Description: Hexagonal cameo; glass paste; dull brown streaked with red; Christ with cruciferous nimbus seated on a throne with footstool; right hand raised in gesture of benediction; to left stands the Virgin, to the right St John the Baptist (a composition known as deesis); letters either side of Christ's head.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 13thC
Production place: Made in: Venice (city)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt (?); Found/Acquired: Turkey (?)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 1.80 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (687); Wentzel 1959 / Das Medallion mit dem Hl. Theodor und die venezianischen Glaspasten im byzantinischen Stil (3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: saint/martyr; new testament
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: Virgin Mary (?); Representation of: St John the Baptist (Prodromos)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1880
Acquisition notes: Obtained with a collection from Egypt and Asia Minor.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1880,0614.24

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