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Corbel bearing the cross of the Knights Hospitaller, Israel Museum Collections.

Corbel bearing the cross of the Knights Hospitaller, Israel Museum Collections.

Part of the series of defensive walls surrounded the city, various stages of the walls’ construction date back to the Roman Empire, with some evidence of the existence of the citadel (in its earliest construction) dating back as far as 2000 BCE. Most…

Museum Description: “The consummate skill used to create this pendant places it among the most highly accomplished examples of gold jewelry from the early Byzantine period. The elaborate frame around the imperial medallion combines two techniques:…

Introduction
The small brick-and-rubble building located near the southeast corner of the Temple of Artemis is known as Church M. The structure was probably set up in the later 4th century, and was used by local residents as a place of Christian…

Detail depicting Alexios (r. 1349-90) and his wife, Theodora. The Chrysobull was to the Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos. The Chrysobull gave the founder of the monastery a sum of 100 somia of silver (about 1000 gold hyperpyra) in order to build…