A small medallion with a bust of a saint holding a book. It apparently belongs to the head or foot of the inner cross of the fragment with the Deësis (BZ.1921.7) its size corresponding almost exactly to that of the medallions of the cross arm. The repoussé portions and borders of both fragments are gilded.

Musée des arts décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Exposition internationale d'art byzantin, 28 mai - 9 juillet 1931 (Paris, 1931), no. 439.

M. Ross, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. I, (Washington, DC, 1962), no. 24, pl. XXII.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 83.

L. Chuskivadze, "Vizantiiski krest iz Matschvarishi," Zograf 15 (1984), 32, fig. 15.

J.-P. Caillet, "La croix byzantine du museé de Cluny," Revue du Louvre 38 (1988), 214, fig. 15a.

J. A. Cotsonis, Byzantine Figural Processional Crosses (Washington, DC, 1994), no. 3.

Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, "Exposition d'art byzantin," 1931.

Cambridge, Fogg Museum, "A Selection of Ivories, Bronzes, Metalwork and Other Objects from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 1945.

Dumbarton Oaks, "Byzantine Figural Processional Crosses," Sept. 23, 1993 - Jan. 29, 1995.

Found in Syria.

Collection of Henri Daguerre, Paris.

Purchased from the dealer Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, by Robert Barnes and Mildred Barnes Bliss, August 20, 1921 - November 29, 1940;

Gifted to Harvard University, November 29, 1940;

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.