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Arab-Byzantine coins : an introduction, with a catalogue of the Dumbarton Oaks collection
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ISBN: 9780884023180 0884023184 Year: 2008 Volume: 12 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : [Cambridge, Mass.] : Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Distributed by Harvard University Press,

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The richly illustrated book presents a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century, tracing its transition, from coins that closely resembled Byzantine issues with imperial images, to purely aniconic specimens with inscriptions in Arabic. This so-called Arab-Byzantine series sheds light on a pivotal period in the history of Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, as formerly Byzantine provinces were slowly Arabicized and Islamicized following the Arab conquests of the 630s and 640s. The historical introduction, which includes descriptions of all the basic types, is followed by a catalogue of the collection of Arab-Byzantine coins at Dumbarton Oaks, published here for the first time

Catalogue of the byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and in the Whittemore collection. 1 : Anastasius I to Maurice 491-602
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ISBN: 0884020126 0884022331 088402024X 9780884020127 9780884020240 Year: 1992 Volume: 4 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection

Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art.. 4, The east
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ISBN: 0884022269 0884021947 0884022501 088402282X 0884023095 9780884022503 9780884022268 9780884022824 9780884023098 Year: 2001 Volume: 2 Publisher: Washington: Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection,


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The Holy Apostles : a lost monument, a forgotten project, and the presentness of the past
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ISBN: 9780884024644 0884024644 Year: 2020 Publisher: Washington Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

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Founded by Constantine the Great, rebuilt by Justinian, and redecorated in the ninth, tenth and twelfth centuries, the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople was the mausoleum of emperors, patriarchs, and saints. It was also a key station in the ceremonies of the city, the site of an important school, a major inspiration for apostolic literature, and briefly the home of the patriarch. Despite its importance, the church no longer exists, replaced by the mosque of Mehmet II after the fall of the city to the Ottomans. Today it is remembered primarily from two important middle Byzantine ekphraseis, which celebrate its beauty and importance, as well as from architectural copies and manuscript illustrations. Scholars have long puzzled over its appearance, as well as its importance to the Byzantines. Anxious to reconstruct the building and its place in the empire, an early collaborative project of Dumbarton Oaks brought together a philologist, an art historian and an architectural historian in the 1940s and 1950s to reconstruct their own version of the Holy Apostles. Never fully realized, their efforts remained unpublished. The essays in this volume reconsider their project from a variety of vantage points, while illuminating differences of approach seventy years later, to arrive at a twenty-first century synthesis.

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Church buildings --- Church architecture --- Architectural rendering --- Architecture, Byzantine --- Byzantine architecture --- Byzantine revival (Architecture) --- Architectural renderings --- Rendering, Architectural --- Architectural drawing --- Architecture --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Churches --- Buildings --- Church facilities --- Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) --- Dumbarton Oaks --- Harvard University. --- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection --- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection --- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library --- Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art --- Holy Apostles (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) --- Apostelkirche (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Saints Apôtres (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) --- Istanbul. --- Istanbul (Turkey). --- Church of the Holy Apostles (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Church of the Apostles (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Church of the Apostles (Constantinople) --- Khramʺ Svi︠a︡tykhʺ apostolovʺ (Konstantinopolʹ) --- History --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Stamboul (Turkey) --- Stampōl (Turkey) --- Stambul (Turkey) --- Stěmpol (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arigrad (Turkey) --- Istāmbūl (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arʹgrad (Turkey) --- Āsitānah (Turkey) --- Ḳushṭa (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyük Şehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Greater Istanbul Municipality (Turkey) --- İstanbul Anakent Belediyesi (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Polē (Turkey) --- Estambul (Turkey) --- Baladīyat Isṭānbūl (Turkey) --- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey) --- Constantinople --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Saints-Apôtres (Constantinople)

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