Plates
1.1: Mars and Venus, Pompeii (1st cent.)
1.2: Landscape, Pompeii (1st cent.)
1.3: A City Scene, Boscoreale (1st cent. BCE)
1.4: Meleager on a Roman Sarcophagus (2nd cent.)
1.5: Venus and Two Nymphs, Britain (2nd or early 3rd cent.)
1.6: Tombstone, near Carthage (2nd cent.?)
1.7: Decorated Coffer from Jerusalem (1st cent.?)
1.8: Base of the Hippodrome Obelisk (c.390)
1.9: Orant Fresco (2nd half of 4th cent.)
1.10: Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (359)
1.11: Reliquary of Theuderic (late 7th cent.)
1.12: Mosaic from San Vitale, Ravenna (c.545–c.550)
Seeing the Middle Ages
2.1: An Ivory Diptych of Christ and the Virgin (mid-6th cent.)
Panel from the consular diptych of Magnus
2.2: Cross at Hagia Sophia (orig. mosaic 6th cent.; redone 768/769)
2.3: Damascus Great Mosque Mosaic (706)
2.4: Belt Buckle from Sutton Hoo (early 7th cent.)
2.5: Saint Luke, Lindisfarne Gospels (1st third of 8th cent.?)
2.6: Carpet Page, Lindisfarne Gospels (1st third of 8th cent.?)
2.7: First Text Page, Gospel of Saint Luke, Lindisfarne Gospels (1st third of 8th
cent.?)
2.8: Franks Casket (1st half of 8th cent.)
3.1: The Empress Eudocia and Her Sons, Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus
(c.880)
3.2: Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones, Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus (c.880)
3.3: Water Pitcher in the Shape of an Eagle (796–797)
3.4: Great Mosque, Córdoba (785–787)
3.5: Sacramentary of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (early 9th cent.)
3.6: The Pleiades (2nd quarter, 9th cent.)
3.7: Psalter Page (2nd quarter, 9th cent.)