Heraclius, Byzantine Imperial Ideology, and the David Plates | Semantic Scholar
@article{Alexander1977HeracliusBI,
title={Heraclius, Byzantine Imperial Ideology, and the David Plates},
author={Suzanne Spain Alexander},
journal={Speculum},
year={1977},
volume={52},
pages={217 - 237},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161886591}
}THE David plates, a set of nine silver disks divided between the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Archeological Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus, are among the finest surviving examples of Byzantine secular art.' Products of court manufacture, they were discovered in 1902 by a worker quarrying at the site of the acropolis of ancient Lapethos (Byzantine Lambousa) on Cyprus. Part of the second of two hoards found there, they were apparently buried in advance of the Arab conquest of Lapethos in 653…