Base for a Cross

Unknown Artist

11th century

Base for a Cross by Unknown Artist

Medium

Copper alloy: leaded medium-tin bronze with a significant trace of zinc

Dimensions

Overall: 10 1/2 x 1 15/16 x 1 15/16 in. (26.7 x 4.9 x 4.9 cm)

Classification

Metalwork-Copper alloy

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Medieval Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Max Falk, Alastair B. Martin, Stephen Scher, and William Kelly Simpson Gifts, in honor of William D. Wixom, 1993

Accession Number

1993.165

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