Browse Items (972 total)

The opaque turquoise glass bowl features images of running, stylized hares in each of the five panels. The five enamel plaques have been identified as Byzantine, but were most likely made for another purpose. Three are decorated with a rosette…

The Roman Catholic Church holds that this section of the cross (vertical bar measuring 63.5 cm long; cross bar measuring 39.3 cm, with a thickness of 38 mm) is the largest relic of the True Cross. As with all other accepted relics of the True Cross,…

Obv.: Diademed head of Ptolemy I r.
Rev.: Eagle with outstreched wings, standing on thunderbolt l., to l. phi monogram

Obv.: Diademed head of Ptolemy I r.
Rev.: Eagle with outstreched wings, standing on thunderbolt l., to l. AX monogram

Obverse: Ram's head, l.; beneath, dolphin, l. Reverse: Incuse circle; inside, goat's head facing between two dolphins, upwards, and two ivy leaves.

inscription: obverse: DNTHEODO SIVSPFAVC
inscription: reverse: VOTXX MVLTXX
in ex: CONOB
in ex:CONOB
Obverse Inscription: DN THEODO-SIVS PF AVG

Obverse: Bust of Pulcheria r., draped with necklace, earrings, and rosette diadem.
Reverse: Enwreathed cross, CONOB* in exergue.

Museum Description: “A funerary mosaic and inscription found in the Early Christian Necropolis of Tarragona.
It presided over the tomb of the person depicted and referred to in the inscription. Optimus, whose name emphasizes excellence and…