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Collection of fragmentary architectural elements, decorated with figurative (angels, human figures), symbolic (crosses), phytomorphic motifs and interlaced geometric patterns

Collection of fragmentary slabs decorated with cornices, a cross and geometric interlaced patterns

Castel Ritaldi (Spoleto), old parish church, arch of the portal with phytomorphic motifs and fantastic animals

Miniature with a scene of a banquet from the Bible of S. Pedro de Rodas

Marble fragment of a sarcophagus with a representation of a young man kriophoros (Greek for the 'ram-bearer') (good shepherd) who holds a kantharos (Greek for a type of 'cup for drinking') in his right hand.

Viterbo, cathedral, Romanesque capital with fantastic animals

Collection of fragmentary architectural elements: an architrave (Zacharias visited by the angel), decorated with phytomorphic and figurative motifs; a slab, decorated with crosses, rosettes and interlaced geometric patterns

Miniature of the Paris Psalter (Ms. gr. 139) with the representation of David composing the Psalms

Collection of architectural elements: two Corinthian capitals (a late antique one with plain leaves, and a medieval one, smaller, with lobed acanthus leaves) and a slab, decorated with phytomorphic and geometrical interlaced patterns

Left: Upper part of mould of early christian oil lamps originating from North Africa (Central Tunisia). It is decorated with a christogram (in the form of a cross with the Greek letter P) in the central field and geometric ornaments around. Right:…

Rome, St. Clement's basilica, chancel slab decorated with lemniskoi and Latin crosses flanking a plain wreath at the centre, surrounding the Latin monogram of Bishop John

Scene with a rooster fighting against a turtle