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List of Illustrations
The author and publishers are grateful to the many official bodies, institutions, and individuals
mentioned below for their assistance in supplying original illustration material.
1. Plan of the Church of St Maenas,
Alexandria. After J. B. Ward Perkins,
Papers of the British School at Rome, XVII,
1949 (pl. xi).
2. Map of the Byzantine Empire. Drawn by
Shalom Schotten.
3. Coptic ivory; Apollo and Daphne.
43/4x 31/4 (12.4 x 8.7). Sixth century. Museo
Nazionale, Ravenna. Photo: Anderson.
4. Carving in limestone; Two nereids.
Height, 233/8 (60). Coptic. Sixth century.
Museo Civico, Trieste. Photo: Civico
Museo di Stoia ed Arte, Trieste.
5. Ivory pyxis; Allegorical figures. 31/4x5
diam. (8.5 x 12.6). Sixth century. Lands-
museum, Wiesbaden. Photo: Stadtisches Wiesbaden Museum
.
6. Ivory pyxis; St Maenas in a niche.
Probably Alexandrian. 31/8X41/8 (8 X 10.7).
Sixth century. British Museum. Photo:
Max Hirmer.
7. Ivory multiple diptych; Christ and
Scenes from the Old Testament
. 14 x 12
(33.5 x 30.5). Early sixth century.
Formerly at Murano, now at Museo
Nazionale
, Ravenna. Photo: Max Hirmer.
8. Detail of Fig. 7. Jonah and the Whale.
Photo: Byzantine Exhibition, Edinburgh.
9. Ivory multiple diptych; Christ and
Scenes from the New Testament
.
16 x 125/8 (40.5 X 32). Sixth century.
Cabinet des Médailles, Paris. Photo:
Giraudon.
10. The Throne of Maximian 59 X 24
(150 X 60.5). First half of sixth century.
The Archaeopiscopal Museum, Ravenna.
Photo: Max Hirmer.
11. Detail of Fig. 10. Three plaques from
side
. Scenes from the Life of Joseph.
Photo: Max Hirmer.
12. Detail of Fig. 10. The Nativity of
Christ
. Photo: Max Hirmer.
13. Stucco wall decoration. Early tenth
century. North wall, church of el Edra,
Monastery of Deir es Suryani
. Early
tenth century. Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York.
14. Icon; St Peter. 201/2 x 153/8 (52 X 39).
Sixth century. Monastery of St Catherine,
Mount Sinai. Photo: Institut Français d'Athénes
.
15. Icon; The Three Hebrews in the Fiery
Furnace
. 133/8 x 195/8 (34 x 50). Sixth cen-
tury. Monastery of St Catherine, Mount
Sinai. Photo: Allen.
16. Icon; The Virgin Enthroned. 275/8 x 173/4
(70 x 45). Sixth century. Monastery of
St Catherine
, Mount Sinai. Photo:
Institut Français d'Athénes.
17. Wall-painting; The Virgin and Child.
Sixth or seventh century. Monastery of
St Jeremias
, Saqqara. After J. E. Quibell,
Egypt: Service des Antiquités Excavations
at Saqqara
( 1905-6, 6-7, 7-8), Cairo, 1907.
18. Wall-painting; The Annunciation and
the Nativity
. Tenth century. Southern
apse, church of el Adra, Deir es Suryani.
Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York.
19. Icon; Christ and St Maenas. Sixth
century. Louvre, Paris. Photo: Jacqueline Hyde
.
20. Resist dyed textile; The Triumph of
Dionysus
. Probably fifth century. Louvre,
Paris. Photo: Giraudon.
21. Woollen tapestry; St Theodore. 241/2 x 201/2
(62.5 x 51). Sixth century. Rockefeller
Collection, New York. Photo: Giraudon.
22. Silk bearing design of winged griffin
attacking a bull. Seventh century.
Probably made in Egypt. From the Tomb
of St Ursula
, Cologne. Photo: Giraudon.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Art of the Byzantine Era. Contributors: David Talbot Rice - author. Publisher: Frederick A. Praeger. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1963. Page Number: 269.
    
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