Base for a Cross
Unknown Artist
These miniature buildings are bases that held crosses. With their equal-armed cross shapes and domed tops, they reproduce in miniature the church design most popular during the middle Byzantine centuries.
Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1962
11th century
Copper alloy, cast, filed, reamed, and scraped
11.4 x 3.9 cm
62.10.9
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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