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Objects of Worship in the Middle Byzantine Empire
Reliquary of the True Cross
This reliquary depicts a scene of the Crucifixion with fourteen saints around the border. The reliquary is very small and probably contained a piece of the True Cross, the cross on which Christ was crucified.
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"Reliquary True Cross c800 Byzantine."
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