The outer container of a reliquary of the True Cross one of the richest and most elaborate ensembles of Byzantine enamels to have survived the sack of Constantinople in 1204
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The outer container of a reliquary of the True Cross one of the richest and most elaborate ensembles of Byzantine enamels to have survived the sack of Constantinople in 1204

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The outer container of a reliquary of the True Cross one of the richest and most elaborate ensembles of Byzantine enamels to have survived the sack of Constantinople in 1204, It was taken by a German leader of the Western forces and has been in Germany ever since. Byzantine. c 955. Constantinople.

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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman

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UMG12A17_005

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