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Important Bronze Medallion Incised with Robed Apostle in Prayer
Circa 9th-11th Century AD
Description: Important solid bronze medallion with incised dotted border and decorated with a superb halflength incised portrait of a bearded Apostle, his head encircled with a nimbus. The Apostle wears ornately styled robes and raises both hands in prayer. Smooth, uninscribed back. Examples known in the Princeton and Metropolitan Museums are identified as St. Peter and St. John the Precursor.
Diameter: 1.5 in. (3.8 cm)
Condition: Intact with excellent patina.
Reference: See Byzantium at Princeton (1986), #62, and The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era AD 843-1261 (NY, 1997) #234 for the type.
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Boston scholar Carroll Wales, collected 1952-1970.
Price: $ 2,700
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