Identifier: ivoryworkersmidage00cust (find matches)
Title: The ivory workers of the middle ages
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cust, Anna Maria Elizabeth
Subjects: Ivories
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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t appears to have been re-garded more as an attribute of power than saint-liness. Though Christ and his disciples and theOld Testament^ heroes received it, it also en-circled the heads of the great people of this world.We find it on the celebrated Justinian mosaicsat S. Vitale in Ravenna, and on the medals ofJustinian, and as late as the eleventh century onthe plaque of the Emperor and Empress, Romanusand Eudoxia, in the Bibliotheque nationale atParis (Fig. 20). Next in date and infinitely coarser in executionis that of Felix, 428 (No. 3) ; the head is of arugged type, and the Consul is represented stand-ing alone at the door of his house. Asturias,449 (No. 4), on the contrary, is throned high infront of a colonnade and accompanied by twoattendants. In the tablet, however, of the ConsulBoethius, 487 (No. 5), we see for the first time ^ See the figure of Circe in the Casa di Modesta, Pompeii.- See the Joshua Rotulus, edited by the Directors ot theVatican Library, Rome. t3 IVORY WORKERS
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(victoria and albertmuseum, london 4. FIRST LEAF OF THE DIP-TYCH OF ORESTES, 530 a.d. the Consul seated,inappa in hand, signal-Hng the commence-ment of the games;but the design on thetwo leaves still hassome variation, and onthe second leaf hestands without themappa. The diptych ofSividius, 488 (No. 6),furnishes the earliestexample of the tabletsof simpler type, whichwere probably given topeople of lower degree.It is decorated by aninscribed medallionsurrounded by foliatedscrolls and four ros-ettes. Allthesearefromthe Western Empire. With the commence-ment of the sixth cen-tury and the diptychof Areobindus, Consulat Constantinople, 506,we change to the East-ern Empire and findthe formal type alreadyfixed (see Fig. 4). 14 CONSULAR DIPTYCHS The Consul is seen sitting on the sella ciutdis,or consular chair. This has no back, and isusually made of ivory, with elaborately carvedmasks and claws of lions, and sometimes hassmall figures of Victory on the arms. On it is arichly embroidered cus

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