Marina Belozerskaya
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199739318
- eISBN:
- 9780199979356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199739318.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine
The Tazza was likely brought to Constantinople by Constantine the Great. This chapter discusses the founding of his new capital, his transfer there of artworks from across the Greco-Roman world, and ...
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The Tazza was likely brought to Constantinople by Constantine the Great. This chapter discusses the founding of his new capital, his transfer there of artworks from across the Greco-Roman world, and their continued use under subsequent Byzantine emperors. It also suggests that the Tazza served as a model for a silver-gilt inkpot created at the Byzantine court in the 10th century. Also in Byzantium the bowl likely underwent a Christian conversion into a liturgical chalice.Less
The Tazza was likely brought to Constantinople by Constantine the Great. This chapter discusses the founding of his new capital, his transfer there of artworks from across the Greco-Roman world, and their continued use under subsequent Byzantine emperors. It also suggests that the Tazza served as a model for a silver-gilt inkpot created at the Byzantine court in the 10th century. Also in Byzantium the bowl likely underwent a Christian conversion into a liturgical chalice.
