Holy images on blades: unique swords from the State Hermitage Museum (preliminary publication)

The focus of this article are interesting rarities from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum - swords of the 17th-18th centuries with inscriptions in Greek and Slavonic, with images of Christian saints inlaid in gold. The authors offer the general characteristics of 17 exemplars of this kind...

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Main Authors: Vsevolod Obraztsov, Yuri Pyatnitsky
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: National Museum of History of Moldova 2013-12-01
Series:Tyragetia
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Online Access:https://www.nationalmuseum.md/en/press_releases/journal_tyragetia/holy_images_on_blades_unique_swords_from_the_state_hermitage_museum_preliminary_publication/

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