Cameo with the Archangel Michael – Byzantine – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467685
The end of the drill has punctuated the stone’s white zone, opening a semblance of space at Michael’s elbow and between his legs. The engraver also manipulated the white stratum so as to frame the image in an oval band
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