Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Quarto volume bound in blue cloth and lettered in gilt to the spine. Volume twenty-one is dedicated to Sirarpie Der Nersessian. This volume opens with a Dedication and Bibliography of Sirarpie Der Nersessian followed by two brief obituaries - the first to Carl H. Kraeling and the second for George Christos Soulis. The volume contains the following essays: John L. Teall - The Age of Constantine: Change and Continuity in Administration and Economy; Johannes A. Straub - Constantine at (Greek Text): Tradition and Innovation in the Representation of the First Christian Emperor's Majesty; Massey H. Shepherd, Jr. - Liturgical Expressions of the Constantinian Triumph; Evelyn B. Harrison - The Constantinian Portrait; Irving Lavin - The Ceiling Frescoes in Trier and Illusionism in Constantinian Painting; Richard Krautheimer - The Constantinian Basilica; Hans Eberhard Mayer - Das Pontifikale von Tyrus und die Kronung der lateinischen Konige von Jerusalem; Romilly J.H. Jenkins - A Cross of the Patriarch Maichael Cerularius; with An Art-historical Comment by Ernst Kitzinger. Then follows a "Notes" section: Cyril Mango - When Was Michael III Born?; David C. Winfield and Ernest J.W. Hawkins - The Church of Our Lady at Asinou, Cyprus. A Report on the Seasons of 1965 and 1966; Cecil L. Striker and Y. Dogan Kuban - Work at Kalenderhane Camii in Istanbul: First Preliminary Report; R. Martin Harrison and Nezih Firatli - Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul: Fourth Preliminary Report; Gudrun Engberg - "Aaron and His Sons" - A Prefiguration of the Virgin?; Kenan T. Erim - Two New Early Byzantine Statues from Aphrodisias. Then concluding with - The Age of Constantine: Tradition and Innovation. Report on the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium of 1966. Both the book and complete dust jacket are in superb condtion. Illustrated throughout.

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