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Museum Description: “This marble sculpture is from the Temple of Mithras which once stood in the City. It shows Mithras plunging his dagger into the neck of a bull from whose blood sprang everlasting life. The inscription reads 'Ulpius Silvanus,…

Missorium of Theodosius I, 388, Roman, silver and silver gilt, diam: 74 cm, weight: 15.35 kg, Madrid, Academia de la Historia.

This silver dish, most likely made in Constantinople, was meant to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Theodosius I’s…

Obverse Inscription: ThetaCEB,Theta,TOIS bASIL,S (A with vertical middle bar instead of horizontal). In field to l., MP (two letters sharing their adjoining vertical stroke, and overlined), to r., ThetaV (overlined).
Reverse Inscription: +MERThetaY…

The most important patron of the arts in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the half-Armenian Queen Melisende. Melisende (1105–c. 1160) and her husband, Fulk V of Anjou, became joint rulers of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1131. However within…

Museum description: “Most ivory and bone containers are really wooden, covered with veneers of ivory. This craftsman chose the more extravagant option of carving the box with its six compartments out of a solid block of ivory, the rounded back…

with Christ, Bride, and Groom