Description: Detail of "Ivory panel; Crucifixion and the Holy Women at
the Sepulchre. Set in the cover of a Book of Pericopes executed for King
Henry II before 1014. Reims, about 870. (Cod. Lat. 4452.) 11x5 (28x12.8)."
Photo: Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
Source: Beckwith
Note banners on either side of the Crucifix. It's hard to tell from this
photo if, on each pole, we're looking at three pennants, one above the
other attached with ties, or a single multi-tailed banner.
This page created: July 30, 1996