Portrait of a high rank woman, wearing a crown adorned with pearls and gems. Formerly identified with Amalasuntha, queen of the Goths, more recently attributed to the Byzantine empress Ariadne
Rome, basilica of St. Praxedes, crypt. Two strigilated sarcophagi, the upper one with a small low-relief of a kantharos at the centre, the lower one with three figurative panels: the lateral ones depict two shepherds carrying a ram (kriophoroi), the…
General view of Room 3 of the Museum of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos. The thirteenth-century icons of Christ and of the Mother of God in the type of Hodegetria (Greek for 'who shows the way') are on display in the foreground.
View of the niche of Room 2 of the Museum of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos. An early Christian trapeza (holy altar) occupies the central space. In the background, early Christian marble reliefs (probably an epistyle) are on display. At the higher…
Detail of a fragmentary sarcophagus lid decorated by a figurative relief: from left to right, acroterium with the bust of a man (corner decoration); Jonah resting under the vine; miracle of Jesus (Healing of the Woman Suffering from Hemorrhage?);…