Abstract
Recent excavations at the site of Mola di Monte Gelato near Nepi have brought to light an early medieval marble relief carved with a medallion enclosing a lamb that holds a cross with the pendant letters alpha and omega. The sculpture was found in the debris of a church erected when the site was developed ca. 775 as an agricultural estate under pope Hadrian I (772-795), and it is surely of Carolingian date. The relief enhances the corpus of Italian sculpture from this period since it is one of few extant pieces in which the decoration is used to convey a religious meaning. The image which it represents is of particular interest, illuminating the use of the agnus Dei in Italy during the century after its ban by canon 82 of the Constantinopolitan Quinisext Council.
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