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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Silver Bucket, Period: Early Byzantine circa: 600s. Made in Tirana, Modern Albania. (Found in Vra...
Cross of Romanos II and Basil II, Period: Middle Byzantine, Date: 960-963. Materials: silver and ...
Hinged Closure with Christ and the Virgin, Period: Middle Byzantine. Date: Second half 10th to ea...
British Museum
Relief icon; rectangular bronze plaque cast in low relief with full-length Hodegetria flanked by ...
British Museum
Ivory Panel, carved with standing figures, Christ with the Virgin Mary and St John, below a pierc...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: ca. 1100, Made ...
Paten with Cross and Inscription, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: Mid 6th Century. Materials: sil...
Dish of brown, fine-grained clay covered with a white slip. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Late...
Benediction Cross, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200s-1400s. Materials: black schist, gold, sil...
The State Hermitage Museum
Miliarensis of Basil II and Constantine VIII, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: Between 989 and 10...
Plate with a Tigress Attacking an Ibex, Eastern Mediterranean, Material: Silver. Period: Early By...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Icon with the Crucifixion, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: mid-10th century, Made in probably Con...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ring of Leontios, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1000, Materials: Gold, niello, Inscribed: R...
Ring of Michael Attaleiates, Period: Middle Byzantine, Date: Before 1080. Materials: enamel on go...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: early 9th century, Made in Const...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Antioch Chalice, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 500–550, Made in Antioch or Kaper Koraon, Ma...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Icon with the Koimesis, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: late 900s. Made in probably Constantinop...
British Museum
Vollschmelz medallion (9th Century – Middle Byzantine Period). Gold cloisonné; bust of St. ...
British Museum
Bowl; circular medallion with half-figure of a nimbed saint, St Sergios. Period: Early Byzantine;...
Psalter and New Testament, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa. 1084 A.D. The museum is open to the p...