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Color Plates
Mural depicting Central Asian textiles and musical instruments. From the north wall of the tomb of Xu Xianxiu (d. 571) at Taiyuan, Shanxi (China); 4.5 × 6 m.
After Wenwu Tiandi 1 (2003), fig. 1.
Interlocking pearl roundels (30 cm in diameter) on a red and black honeysuckle design. Fragment of a fifth-century lacquer coffin found in Tomb M1 at Hudong, Datong, Shanxi (China). After Wenwu 12 (2004), fig. 8.
Figures in nomadic dress in filial piety episodes, in a border of palmetto leaves, pearl roundels, and interlocking hexagons. Side of a fifth-century painted lacquer coffin (61 × 175 cm) found at Guyuan, Ningxia.
After Ningxia Huizu zizhi qu Guyuan bowuguan and Zhong Ri Yuanzhou lianhe kaogu dui, eds. Yuanzhou gumu jicheng (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1999), plate 18.
The Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, with a view toward al-Zahir’s maqṣūra (added ca. 1031).
Al-Zahir’s maqṣūra, with inscriptions featuring Qur’an 17:1 at the top. Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem.
Al-Zahir’s maqṣūra, looking toward the central dome and one of four mini domes. Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem.
Detail of the concentric circle mini domes in the Aqsa Mosque, ca. 1031.
The Apostle Thomas preaches the Gospel in India, from Barlaam and Ioasaph : Mount Athos, Holy Monastery of Iviron, Codex 463, fol. 4r.
Man and Death (Psalm 143:4), from the Theodore Psalter: London, British Library, Ms. Add. 19352, fol. 182v.
Seated Virgin and Child, said to be from the Abbey of Frigolet, France, ca. 1300. Ivory, height: 37.8 cm.
Seated figure from Tada, Nigeria, late thirteenth–early fourteenth century. Nearly pure copper, height: 53.7 cm. Lagos, Nigerian National Museum, 79.R.18. Image courtesy of Bridgeman Images.
Beryozovo Cup: Byzantine, twelfth century. Gilded silver, height: 11.6 cm; diameter: 18.5 cm. St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, inv. no W-3.
Detail of Plate 6.1, showing lobes decorated with human and animal figures.
Detail of Plate 6.1, showing female figure at a banquet.
Detail of the Beryozovo Cup (see Plate 6.1), showing interior of the vessel displaying an image of Saint George.
Cup: Byzantine, eleventh century. Silver, height: 5 cm; diameter: 14 cm. St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, inv. no. W-1193.
Detail of cup (see Plate 6.5), showing interior of the vessel displaying an image of Saint Theodore.
Cup with heroic figures under arches: Byzantine, twelfth century. Gilded silver, height: 9.5 cm; diameter: 17 cm. St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, inv. no W-72.
Comparison of decorative borders in the rims of Plates 6.1 (top) and 6.7 (bottom).
Detail of cup (see Plate 6.8), showing interior of the vessel.
Lid from a cup: Byzantine, twelfth century. Silver, height: 9 cm; diameter: 16 cm. St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, inv. no. W-1193.
Comparison of motifs showing an acrobat standing on his hands and drinking from his cup: details of Plates 6.10 (left) and 6.1 (right).
Plate: Byzantine, twelfth century. Silver, height: 5.5 cm; diameter: 29 cm. Photo courtesy of the Benaki Museum, Athens.
Comparison of motifs showing rider figures: details of Plates 6.12 (left) and 6.4 (right).
Candlestick: Ghurid or Ghaznavid, from eastern Iran or Afghanistan, ca. 1150–1200. Brass, height: 33 cm; diameter: 40 cm. Copenhagen, The David Collection, inv. no. 27 / 1971. Photograph: Pernille Klemp.
Detail of Plate 6.14 : lobes depicting plants and animals. Photograph: Pernille Klemp.
Saint George and Saint Theodore attacking a snake: Byzantine, eleventh century. Wall painting from Yılanlı Kilise (Snake Church), Göreme, Cappadocia (Turkey). Photo: David Ball / Alamy Stock Photo.
Dirham of Nasir al-Din Muhammad from Danishmendid, Malatya (Turkey), 1162–78. Copper alloy, diameter: 3 cm. American Numismatic Society, 1916.215.840. Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society.
Saint George on horseback, ca. 1060. Wall painting from Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi, near Nebk, Syria. Photo courtesy of the Paul van Moorsel Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Mat Immerzeel.
Copper coin featuring Saint George on the obverse: Antiochene Mint of Roger of Salerno, Crusader, 1112–19. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, acc. no. HCR43814.
Silver, niello, and steel dagger, front and back: twelfth–thirteenth century, 38.5 cm. Just below the handle on the front is the warrior-saint killing a dragon (see Figure 7.1). Vaduz, Lichtenstein: Furusiyya Art Foundation (R-937). Images courtesy of the Furusiyya Art Foundation, Vaduz.
Detail of the back of a gilded bronze mirror with landscape, figures, and divinatory symbols, dating to the eighth century: Shōsō-in, Nara (Japan). The Shōsō-in Treasures, courtesy of the Imperial Household Agency.
Banner of a bodhisattva standing under a canopy on a lotus, ca. 850 CE: ink and colour on silk, originally from Cave 17, Dunhuang (China). Currently in the Stein Collection, British Museum. Courtesy of the British Museum.
