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The display of "Byzantine Art of the 4th to15th century"
presents cultural and artistic artefacts from Constantinople, the
capital of the Byzantine Empire, as well as its provinces: Greece,
Macedonia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and the northern Black
Sea area. On show here is one of the world's largest collections of
Byzantine lead seals. The marble capitals and altar slab from the
5th-6th centuries were found in Chersonesus, the Byzantine centre
in the Crimea. Outstanding among the marble reliefs from the 12th
and 13th centuries is an icon depicting St George Moromilit. The display
begins on the Saltykov Staircase that linked the apartments on the
first and second floors. |
