
Through a Glass Brightly
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Content
- Intro
- List of Contributors
- Illustration Abbreviations and List of Plate Captions
- Bibliography for David Buckton
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. A dandy dipper: the Ambleteuse clepsydra, Empedocles, and wine-thieves I have known
- 2. Body-chains: Hellenistic to Late Roman
- 3. Light on Byzantium - a universal sundial in the British Museum
- 4. Visualising women in Late Antique Rome: the Projecta casket
- 5. Sources of cloisonné enamel: some early fused gold and glass inlays
- 6. On the date of the Symmachi panel and the so-called Grado Chair ivories
- 7. Who's that girl? Personifications of the Byzantine empress
- 8. A painting of Saint Kollouthos
- 9. Three illuminating objects in the Lampsacus treasure
- 10. Early Byzantine mercantile communities in the West
- 11. Studying the Byzantine staurothèque at Esztergom
- 12. Saint Theodore and the Dragon
- 13. Apotropaic devices on Byzantine lead seals in the Collections of Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art
- 14. Middle Byzantine (10th-13th century AD) stamp seals in semi-precious stone
- 15. The Bristol Psalter
- 16. The production of red glass and enamel in the Late Iron Age, Roman and Byzantine periods
- 17. 'The Celtic Fringe': two enamelled mounts
- 18. Some late tenth- and eleventh-century cloisonné enamel brooches and finger-rings from Denmark
- 19. Containers for Agnus Deis
- 20. Design and invention in Gothic architecture: Mildenhall and Ely
- 21. Abbé James Hamilton: antiquary, patron of the arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic
- 22. Nineteenth-century versions of the Veroli casket
- 23. A Venetian goblet made for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 with gold leaf medallions of Early Christian martyrs
- 24. Felix Slade's forgotten version of the so-called Early Christian 'Amiens Chalice'
- 25. 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth': the British Museum and the second Cyprus treasure
- Colour Plates
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