The Moses Cross at Sinai

Weitzmann, Kurt; Ševčenko, Ihor

doi:10.2307/1291199

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“…Kurt Weitzmann and Ihor Ševčenko have compiled an inventory that includes the "Sinai Cross" from Syria or Palestine; 43 the Chalice of Rīḥ a, now in the Dumbarton Oaks museum in Washington, discovered in Syria in 1908 and dated around 542; 44 the lintel of the door of a church in Androna (El-anerin) in northern Syria dated to the time of Justinian (527-565); 45 and the dedicatory inscription on the baptismal font of the basilica on Mount Nebo in Jordan, built shortly before 597. 46 For the provinces that fell under the jurisdiction of the patriarchate of Constantinople, Ševčenko identified an inscription in the church of St. John in Ephesus, inscriptions on two marble medallions, perhaps from the baptistery of the basilica of Hagia Sophia in Nicea (Iznik).…”

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Between Anamnesis and Praise: The Origin of Oblation in Syro-Byzantine Anaphoras

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2020

Studia Liturgica

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In the Byzantine anaphoras of Basil and John Chrysostom, at the transition from the anamnesis to the epiclesis, one finds a formula of offering the eucharistic gifts. This formula is absent from the anaphoras of the Antiochian tradition, from which the two Byzantine anaphoras derive. This article clarifies that the formula is neither an offertory formula nor a sacrificial formula, as some authors have attempted to sustain. Its origins are to be found in the custom of dedicating objects, buildings, and boats. Every gift is a restitution to God of what has already been given by him, including the offering of the bread and wine for the Eucharist. This formula of offering the eucharistic gifts was imposed simultaneously upon the two Byzantine anaphoras sometime before the end of the fifth century.

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Between Anamnesis and Praise: The Origin of Oblation in Syro-Byzantine Anaphoras

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2020

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“…The upright bar and arms of the cross are flaring, their ends decorated with tear-drop serifs. This form of decoration was common during the 6th and 7th centuries(5) and is known, for example, on small Coptic crosses of bronze (6); on large altar crosses, such as the one in the Justinian basilica at St. Catherine's monastery, Sinai(7); and on the carved stucco crosses found in the churches excavated at sites much closer to Jabal Berri, such as Hira (S), in southern Iraq, and al-Qousour (9), on Failaka. Given the fact _1 r Dimensions of the bronze cross (in crn.…”

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