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Head broken at neck. Framing the forehead “are three separate masses of hair…one in the center made up of two separate tiers, and two at the sides.…The forehead is plastically modeled with two horizontal bony masses.…Upon the surface are…

The Travels of Marco Polo. The Polo Brothers bid farewell to Constantinople en route to Trebizond and the Silk Route.
Le Livre des Merveilles,15th cent. Bibliotheque Nationale MS Fr. 2810.

with Christ, Bride, and Groom

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…

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…

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…