Archiepiscopal Museum, Ravenna. The Archiepiscopal Museum is located in Ravenna, Italy, next to the Baptistry of Neon and behind the Duomo of Ravenna.
In the museum relics of early Christian Ravenna are preserved, including fragments of mosaic from the first cathedral church, and the chapel of Sant'Andrea, dating from the Gothic kingdom. The main room, on entering, contains lapidary inscriptions as HIC REQUIESCIT IN PACE VIR SBL SEDA IGNUCUS, CUBICULARIUS or Bedchamberlain to Theodoric the Great, buried 541 AD. Beneath this, by the window, a reliquary for the martyred saints Quiricus and Julietta, whose remains were carried from Tarsus, the birthplace of Saint Paul, to Auxerre and from thence to Ravenna.
The depictions on its four facings are in keeping with the theme of donation: Galla Placidia placed it in the church of San Giovanni Battista. They are: Christ giving the Tables of the Law to St. Peter, with Paul standing by him; Daniel in the lions' den, with the prophet Habakkuk offering him a loaf and fishes;.
The Three Wise Kings bringing their gifts to the infant Christ;. The women sitting below at His empty tomb.
The marble rosette on the facing wall is a Paschal calendar of the 6th century. Its purpose was to fix the movable feast of Easter in such a way that it might be celebrated everywhere in Christendom on the same day-no easy matter when East and West were using different calendars: the Eastern Ch
In the museum relics of early Christian Ravenna are preserved, including fragments of mosaic from the first cathedral church, and the chapel of Sant'Andrea, dating from the Gothic kingdom. The main room, on entering, contains lapidary inscriptions as HIC REQUIESCIT IN PACE VIR SBL SEDA IGNUCUS, CUBICULARIUS or Bedchamberlain to Theodoric the Great, buried 541 AD. Beneath this, by the window, a reliquary for the martyred saints Quiricus and Julietta, whose remains were carried from Tarsus, the birthplace of Saint Paul, to Auxerre and from thence to Ravenna.
The depictions on its four facings are in keeping with the theme of donation: Galla Placidia placed it in the church of San Giovanni Battista. They are: Christ giving the Tables of the Law to St. Peter, with Paul standing by him; Daniel in the lions' den, with the prophet Habakkuk offering him a loaf and fishes;.
The Three Wise Kings bringing their gifts to the infant Christ;. The women sitting below at His empty tomb.
The marble rosette on the facing wall is a Paschal calendar of the 6th century. Its purpose was to fix the movable feast of Easter in such a way that it might be celebrated everywhere in Christendom on the same day-no easy matter when East and West were using different calendars: the Eastern Ch
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