381, Lot: 733. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Bronze processional cross. Byzantine, 7th-10th centuries AD. Processional cross with knob at each corner, thin bars connecting the top portions. Mounting handle is attached at bottom. Includes custom stand.
Height: 15.8cm.
Ex David Hendin Collection.
This piece is published in David Hendin, Cultural change: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic coins of the Holy Land (New York: American Numismatic Society, 2011), p. 68, fig. 18 (right illustration).