Intaglio with Saint Theodore Teron Slaying a Many-Headed Dragon, 1300 or later, Byzantine, Agate, Overall: 1 5/16 x 1 x 1/4in. (3.4 x 2.6 x 0.6cm), Lapidary Work-Gems, Theodore Teron (the recruit) was one of several soldier-martyrs whose cults were enormously popular in the later centuries of the Byzantine Empire. This intaglio illustrates Theodore’s miraculous slaying of a dragon
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Intaglio, Saint Theodore Teron Slaying, Headed Dragon, 1300, later, Byzantine, Agate, Overall, 1 5/16 x 1 1/4in, 3.4 2.6 0.6cm, Lapidary Work-Gems, Theodore Teron, recruit, several soldier-martyrs, cults, enormously popular, later centuries, Byzantine Empire, intaglio illustrates, Theodore, miraculous, slaying, dragon
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