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Hanging Lamp with Hand Holding a Cross

This hanging oil lamp chandelier was meant as an offering for a cure or remedy, possibly taken out only when a halt to sickness was needed. Originally…

Bowl Base with Christ Giving Martyrs' Crowns to Saints Peter and Paul

This glass bowl base is made with gold foil sandwiched between two fused layers of glass to create what is commonly known as a gold-glass medallion.…

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke is a Byzantine reliquary which most likely would have been used to carry fragments of the True Cross as well as other…

Mother and Child Figurine

This figure, excavated from a mass grave at Beth Shean in the 1920s, is fashioned from terracotta, adorned with a red wash, and depicts a woman…

Marriage Ring

This ring, made of gold, is from the early Byzantine period and is believed to have been used to signify and protect a marriage. It shows Christ,…

Six Silver Plates with Scenes from the Early Life of David

A collection of six silver plates depicting the story of David and Goliath, utilizing scenes from the Old testament of the Bible. The plates were used…

Illuminated Psalter

Psalters are an important part of Christian liturgical services and are some of the most popular texts of the Middle ages. Psalters contain the Psalms…

Old Testament Fragment; Enarratio in prophetam Isaiam

This 10th-century Greek manuscript fragment consists of one folio of the Book of Wisdom and a religious commentary by Basil of Caesarea. It originated…

Manuscript of Paulus Aegineta Medical Compendium in Seven Books

This is a single leaf of a paper manuscript from a 15th-century copy of surgeon Paulus Aegineta’s Medical Compendium in Seven Books, a medical text…

Pros mathēmatikous (Against The Professors)

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Russia, Isidore of Kiev, copied the second century Pros mathēmatikous (Against the Professors) originally written by…