Cross (Moses Cross)
Item
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Work Number
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580149
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Title
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Cross (Moses Cross)
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Description
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Inscribed bronze flaring Greek cross. On the end of each arm (except the bottom one) are carvings of a biblical scene or subject. Left arm: Moses receiving the 10 Commandments from God. Right arm: Moses removing his sandals. Upper Arm: Hands of God.
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Medium
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Bronze metalwork
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Language
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Greek
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Bibliographic Citation
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Sevcenko, Ihor. "The Early Period of the Sinai Monastery in the Light of its Inscriptions," Dumbarton Oaks, Papers, 20, 1966, 264 and pl. 16A.
Demus, Otto. Byzantine Art in the West, New York University Press, 1970, fig. 68.
Beckwith, John. "Byzantine Influence on art at the Court of Charlemagne," Karl der Grosse, Lebenswerk und Machleben: karolingische Kunst, band III, 1965, p. 229 and fig. 5.
Weitzmann, Kurt and Sevcenko, Ihor. "The Moses Cross at Sinai," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 17, 1963, 385-398, figs. 1-4, 11-12, 17-18.
Weitzmann, Kurt. "Mount Sinai's Holy Treasures," National Geographic, 125, 1964, p. 123, ill.
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Provenance
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Chapel of the Forty Martyrs
