File:Processional Cross 1 Schmidt Collection.jpg

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Eastern Mediterranean (Antioch?), Processional Cross with Christ, Apostles and Daniel; c. 500 AD; Brass, with tin and tenorite (copper oxide)
photographed at the Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas; on loan from the Christian Schmidt Collection, Munich (Germany)


labelled „this may be the earliest surviving example of a cross made for ritual use in church“
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