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One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God",
5th–6th century

Eastern Mediterranean, Byzantine

2000-255

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Title

One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God"

Dates

5th–6th century

Medium

Bronze with silver inlay

Dimensions

2.3 x 2.3 x 0.6 cm (7/8 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Gift of Emily Townsend Vermeule, Honorary Degree Holder of the Class of 1989, and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, in memory of Catherine Comstock Vermeule

Object Number

2000-255

Inscription

Inlaid in silver, two letters in each corner: [see accession card for reproduction] ; "Grace of God"; Attached to the cross in the center is the abbreviated name of St. Theodoros: [see accession card for reproduction]; On either side of the cross: ("one ounce");

Culture

Byzantine

Type

weights, bronzes

Materials

bronze, silver

Subject

Christianity, crosses (objects), saints, religious symbolism

Purchased from Robert Hecht, Jr., in 2000.

"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 2000," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 60 (2001): p. 66-93., p. 85

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Eastern Mediterranean, Byzantine, 5th–6th century, One-ounce weight with inlaid cross and inscriptions naming Saint Theodoros and invoking the "Grace of God". Bronze with silver inlay; 2.3 x 2.3 x 0.6 cm. Museum purchase, Gift of Emily Townsend Vermeule, Honorary Degree Holder of the Class of 1989, and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, in memory of Catherine Comstock Vermeule (2000-255) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/39249

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