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Culture
Korsun
Credit Line
Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020
Accession Number
2020.154
Provenance
Purchased from Bowater Gallery, London, in 1971.
References
Brad Hostetler, with Ani Parnagian, "From Private to Public: The Collection of David P. Harris," in Ethiopian Objects in the Blick-Harris Study Collection: Art, Context, and the Persistence of Form, eds. Brad Hostetler, and Lynn Jones, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 5–25. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss1/1/
Description
This cross is rather similar to 2020.153, but with a green stone and small green beads in the middle of the four chains connecting the arms. Each of the four medal caps at the ends of the arms is decorated with a small ovular frame within which there may originally have been a figure. The cross retains its original hinge at the top, but the suspension piece is now missing.