At 11:24 14.02.99 +0100, you wrote:
>In the meantime I have looked up Peter Dinzelbacher, _Judastraditionen_
>Wien: Selbstverlag des O"sterreichischen Museums fu"r Volkskunde, 1977 (=
>Raabser Ma"rchen-Reihe, 2), who deals with this motif on p.30. His earliest
>example is a Byzantine 10th century email, for which he refers to Maurice
Given that 10th century Byzantines are unlikely to have used email, I wish
to point out that "email" here is an unsuccessful attempt of mine to
translate the German "Emailmedaillon" ('enamel medaillon'). Sigh.
Otfried
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