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LOT 1473
Redware Chi Rho Roundel
20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (44 grams, 69 mm).
A reproduction with border of roundels and pelletted chevrons, tondo with Chi Rho christogram between roundels; edge repaired. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired 1960s-1990s.
From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
Literature
Cf. for a similar original Chi Rho on a lamp of 5th-6th century A.D. in Wamser, L., Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas Östliches Erbe, München, 2004, item 344.
Footnotes
The monogram depicted on the roundel is bearing the Greek letters X and P, i.e. the initials of Christ. This Chrismon was widely used in the Roman world after Constantine the Great. Roundels with the Chi Rho monogram, widely spread from Constantine I onwards, would have been in use especially among ecclesiastic hierarchy as a distinctive token of their status.
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