Altar cross

3D Model

This is a silver altar cross decorated with medallions with painted enamels. The cross and the circle (the glow around the cross) are decorated with medallions featuring pictorial enamels. On the front side of the central cross is the scene “Resurrection of Chris”, below it is “Crucifixion”, on the right is “Laying into the grave”, on the circle – “Angel with the instruments of Christ’s execution”. The reverse side features the scenes “Mother of God and Child”, four medallions depicting the evangelists, “Annunciation”, “Presentation of Christ”, “Baptism of Christ in the River Jordan”, and a partially destroyed fragment that may depict “Adoration of the Three Kings”.

Site: Armenian church in the city of Kiliia (Odesa region)

Creation date: 1744.

The artefact is stored in the Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine.

The object was digitized as part of “The Treasury of the National Minorities” project, which is supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.