ANCIENT BYZANTINE PILGRIMS BURIAL CROSS.

Price: Sold

Sold

Item Number: 08-629

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity spread throughout the Byzantine Empire which occupied previously Roman areas surrounding the Mediterranean. A pilgrimage to the Holy Land became a fundamental goal of every Christian in the hope of strengthening his faith and attaining immortality. Holy sites with Christian associations established shrines for visiting pilgrims who were sold a variety of blessed objects including flasks of holy water and crosses containing such sacred relics as splinters of the true cross and fragments of Marys veil. Following is a collection of those items dating 1000-1500 years ago.

C.600-700 AD and displaying the evolutionary abstraction typical of the period. Bronze, slightly over 3 1/2 height with the arms outlined and circles at the center and terminals representing Christs 5 wounds. Rich mottled verdigris surface. Many pilgrims perished on the voyage to the Holy Land from fatigue, disease, poor nutrition and natural causes. Bodies were generally buried wrapped only with a cross such as this one in the wrappings.

Related Items

FINE DINKA KNOBKERRY Price: Sold Second half of the 19th century and probably served in the Mahdist War when the Dinka (southern Sudan) fought against	Hawaiian Print Price: Sold When Captain James Cook undertook his first voyage to the South Seas in 1778 the feat was no less daring than our first voyage to the moon and was followed by the English public with equal interest.
Gothic European tournament pendants Price: Sold Gothic European tournament pendants dating C.1300-1450 which originally adorned the war horses (chargers) on the tournament field.	Culloden-The Swords and The Sorrows .... Price: $145.00 Probably the most important Arms book published in many years! More information on Scottish weapons than all the other books combined!
FINE LARGE MORO KRIS. Price: Sold 22 7/8 five wave blade deeply sculpted at the forte with delicately figured base segments. Hard wood hilt with elaborately finely engraved silver mounts.	INDIAN KATAR Price: Sold 10 scalloped base blade and double swelled grips. Mostly bright with scattered medium to heavy pitting overall. No scabbard.
Gothic European tournament pendant Price: Sold Gothic European tournament pendants dating C.1300-1450 which originally adorned the war horses (chargers) on the tournament field.	Gothic European tournament pendants-2 Price: $115.00 Gothic European tournament pendants dating C.1300-1450 which originally adorned the war horses (chargers) on the tournament field.
Gothic European tournament pendants-3 Price: Sold Gothic European tournament pendants dating C.1300-1450 which originally adorned the war horses (chargers) on the tournament field.	INDIAN KATAR-1 Price: $95.00 13 3/4 length with 8 1/8 raised medial thickened point blade on deeply scalloped support.
INDIAN KATAR-2 Price: $170.00 16 length. 9 1/4 blade with raised medial and thickened armor piercing point. Bulbous grips with diamond web and beaded bar connectors.	INDIAN KATAR-3 Price: Sold 10 3/4 blade and 18 1/2 total length. Bulbous grips with diamond shaped connectors.
INDIAN KATAR-4 Price: Sold 17th-18th century. 11 1/8 overall length with mostly smooth finish	LARGE INDOPERSIAN HORSEMANS SABER C.1700 Price: $675.00 Iron hilt with broad disk shaped pommel, expanded medial grip and long button terminal guard.
FINE LARGE INDO PERSIAN SABER C.1700. Price: $625.00 Heavy 32 curved s.e blade with high raised kilij form false edge.	NGUNI KNOBKERRY. Price: $385.00 Southeast Africa. 19 1/4 length. The head incorporating the root cluster and finely carved in the shape of a rhino horn base. See our Sept. 2007 catalog, item 742
SUDANESE ARM DAGGER Price: $145.00 Sudanese War period. 6 5/8 wasp waisted blade with slender thrusting point.	SUDANESE ARM DAGGER-1 Price: Sold Sudanese War period. Forged iron with good tapered 7 3/4 d.e. blade, the edges with diagonal scored decoration.
SUDANESE ROBE DAGGER, SUDANESE WAR PERIOD, C1885 Price: $165.00 Contoured hilt encased in leather with leather lace grip covering and iron base mount.	TAUREG ROBE DAGGER TELEK Price: Sold C.1850 identical to Stone fig. 781 #1 with elaborate cruciform hilt with wire wrapped cross. The grip with stacked pyramidal plates as found on kaskara handles secured with wire.