Pectoral cross with busts of Jesus Christ and saints, silver-gilt. On the reverse, the engraved inscription refers to its owner: Epiphanios. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 11th c. The Benaki Museum of Greek Culture is housed in one of the most beautiful neoclassical-style buildings in Athens, near the National Garden and the Hellenic Parliament.
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Tunic from Palermo; Blue and red velvet, gold embroidery, gold appliqués with cloisonné enamel an...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Base for a Cross, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: 11th century. Made in Constantinople. Materials...
Benediction Cross, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200s-1400s. Materials: black schist, gold, sil...
Book Cover with a Cross Flanked by Cypress Trees, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: Mid 6th Century...
Bowl with Hunting Scene, Period: Early Byzantine, 5th Century A.D. Material: silver. The museum i...
Brick with a Dog’s Paw Print. Period: Middle Byzantine; Findspot: Istanbul. Material: ceram...
Cleveland Art Museum of Art
Calyx (Chalice), Period: Middle Byzantine, 900s-1000s. Blood jasper (heliotrope) with gilt-copper...
Chalice, Period: Early Byzantine, ca. 527 – 565 A.D. Materials: silver and niello. The mus...
Crescent-Shaped Earring, Materials: Gold filigree with cloisonné enamel. Period: Middle Byzantine...
The Cleveland Art Museum
Crescent-Shaped Pendant, Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 11th century. Materials: gold filigree ...
Cross of Romanos II and Basil II, Period: Middle Byzantine, Date: 960-963. Materials: silver and ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cross, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1100, Made in Constantinople, Materials: Cloisonne enamel...
The State Hermitage Museum
Diptych Showing Twelve Festive Scenes, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: Late 10th century. Materi...
Dish of brown, fine-grained clay covered with a white slip. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Late...
British Museum
Silver Dish; Period: Early Byzantine. 6th.c.(late) on a shallow foot; the centre decorated with E...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Double-Sided Pendant Icon with the Virgin and Christ Pantokrator, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa...
The Cleveland Art Museum
Earring with Openwork, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: 7th-9th Century. Materials: gold with a ro...
British Museum
Earring; Period: Middle Byzantine; 11thc.-12thc. Material: gold. British Museum is closed 24, 25...
Enkolpion Reliquary Cross with Crucifixion and the Virgin, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa 10th t...
Cleveland Art Museum of Art
Enkolpion with the Crucifixion (front) and Saints Theodore and George (back), silver gilt and clo...