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page 189 note * Graeven, H. in Repertorium fur Kunstwissenschaft xxi. (1898), 28 ffGoogle Scholar. The lot-machine is mentioned on p. 34.
page 190 note * See Robert, C., Etude sur les médaillons contorniates, Brussels, 1882, pl. iii. fig. 2Google Scholar ; Daremberg et Saglio, Dictionary of Antiquities, i. 1195, fig. 1531.
page 190 note † This seems to indicate that a piece of cloth or canvas was stretched upon the frame, though if this was really the case the movement of the urn must have been somewhat impeded.
page 190 note ‡ Revue Archéologique ii. pt. 1, 1845, pl. xxviii.
page 190 note § De Cœremoniis aulœ Byzantinæ, Bonn edition, I. c. ix. pp. 312 ff.
page 192 note * W. Maskell, Description of the Ivories, etc., 1872, p. 107. The leaf in the British Museum is reproduced by H. Graeven, Frühchristliche und Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinwerke in photographischer Nachbildung, Series I. Nos. 37–8.
page 192 note † The second scene may be the personification of the Church rebuking the personification of Judæa or Jerusalem, who is represented with a turreted nimbus. Or possibly the standing figure may be the Synagogue taking counsel with Judæa or Jerusalem. A similar group in which the seated figure has the turreted nimbus occurs on an ivory carving in the National Library, Paris (see Cahier and Martin, Mélanges d'Archéologie, etc., vol. ii. 1851, pl. v. and p. 56), by whom the first interpretation was suggested. At the bottom of the South Kensington ivory are seen the usual personifications of Earth and Ocean with a figure of a dead man rising from the tomb.
page 193 note * It may be noted that the ancient voting urn (situla or sitella) was actually filled with water into which the lots were thrown ; the water was then poured out and the lots with it. See Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, s.v. Situla.
page 193 note † Acquired with the Morel Collection, 1901.
page 194 note * O. von Falke and H. Frauberger, Deutsche Schmelzarbeiten des Mittelalters, Frankfurt, 1904, pl. i.
page 194 note † See Proceedings, N.S. xx. 65–68.
page 194 note ‡ Except possibly a vestment, though even in this case the decoration of both sides is, so far as I can discover, unprecedented. Small enamelled medallions were applied to maniples, as for example those of the Metropolitans Alexius and Photius at Moscow (N. Kondakoff, Byzantine Enamel, German edition, 255). The imperial mantle, shoes, etc., in the Schatzkammer at Vienna also have applied medallions, with purely ornamental designs recalling those occurring in the mosaics of the Capella Palatina and the cathedral of Monreale ; these medallions may have been made in Sicily. The medallion may possibly have been mounted as a pendant.
page 195 note * The most conspicuous example is the large panel in the hermitage at St. Petersburg, representing St. Theodore Stratelates slaying the dragon (Darcel and Basilewsky, La Collection Basilewsky, pl. xiv.). Two early cloisonné enamelled portraits on copper of rude execution and made in the West were referred to in Proceedings, N.S. xx. 70, note 1. The use of silver for the cells is even rarer, but is said to be found in one of the curious enamelled medallions in the Copenhagen Museum, also of Western workmanship.
page 195 note † The ground of the Byzantine medallions containing busts upon the cross of Queen Dagmar (1212) in the Copenhagen Museum is blue. An enamelled ground is also found on certain medallions with busts on a cross in the monastery of Martwili, Mingrelia (Kondakoff, 172).
page 195 note ‡ Cf, Kondakoff, 97:
page 196 note * Kondakoff, 104.
page 196 note † Ducange, Glossarium, ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ Græcitatis, s.v. Τροιν.
page 196 note ‡ These leaves are described by Constantine Porphyrogenitus (De Cærimoniis aulæ Byzantiuæ, i. 422 etc.) as Κισσφυλλα, and the design is older than Chrysostom, who mentions inwoven ivy-leaves on the garments of Asiatics Chrysostom's Works, Homilies on St. Matthen, ch. 49, in Migne, Patr. gr. vii. p. 502). For information on these saints, their costumes and attributes, see N. Kondakoff, Byzantine Enamels (Swenigorodskoi collection), German edition, ch. iii.
page 196 note § Kondakoff, 302.
page 197 note * Published with photographic reproduction in the Byzantinische Zeitschrift, for the present year (1906), vol. xv. The dish is 5⅓ inches in diameter.
page 198 note * Archæologia, lvii. pl. xvi. fig. 2. A further silver treasure, also found near Kyreuia a few years later, is published, partly in Archaeologia, vol. lx., and partly in Le Musée, Paris, 1906. In these publications, and in the Catalogue of Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities in the British Museum under Nos. 397 ff. general information and references relating to Byzantine silver plate will be found.
page 198 note † Professor Lethaby recalls the, fact that a very similar but not identical monogram is to be seen on a capital from Sta. Sophia, Constantinople.
page 199 note * Part i. p. 62
page 201 note * In vol. xxxiv. of the Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archæological and Natural History Society.
page 202 note * Natalis de Wailly, Eléments de Paléographie, vol. ii. pl. vii.
page 202 note † Besides this certain correction Mr. Irvine shows two 8's but no 3 ; two 14's but no 17. If we may make corrections here too, and such errors in copying much weathered inscriptions are likely enough, we get the following series of numbers as found. (He also gives what seem to be two 50's, but of this I cannot offer any explanation.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, — 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, — 16, 17, — 19, — 21, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, — 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, — 45, 46; ——— 50, 51, 52, 55.
page 202 note ‡ Eléments de Paléographie, 1899, pp. 151–154.
page 203 note * I copy from Reusens the early names of the numerals, which were called apices : 1 igin, 2 andras, 3 ormis, 4 arbas, 5 qnimas, 6 caltis, 7 zenis, 8 temenias, 9 celentis, O sipos. The most ancient western MS. in which the signs are found is one of 976 preserved in the Escurial.
page 203 note † In Grimaldi's Synopsis of English History, p. 58, they are said to have been introduced in 1253. It is also said that Roger Bacon knew of them. See also Dr. James, Cat. MSS. Trin. Coll. Camb., ii. 355.
page 205 note * Archaeologia, 1. 169.
page 205 note † Described and figured in Proceedings, 2nd S. ix. 316, 317.