Bronze stauros (cross) pendant, Coptic
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This bronze stauros (cross) pendant with a dark-blue glass inlay is a Coptic cross, meaning “salvation and protection.” This bronze artifact is most probably from Memphis, 250-641 AD. Petrie (1914: Plate XXIII, fig. 37 v, 32, fig. A 137 v) documents a similar stauros. Bibliography (for this item)Petrie, W.M. Flinders1914 Amulets. Constable & Company, London, UK. (Plate XXIII, fig. 137 v 32, fig.A 137 v) Posener, Georges, Serge Sauneron, and Jean Yoyotte 1970 Dictionnaire de la civilisation Egyptienne. 2nd edition. Fernand Hazan, Paris, France. ( 66-67) |
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