Dish of brown, fine-grained clay covered with a white slip. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Late 12th-early 13th c. The decoration is in champlevé, while the individual details are incised. A large standing bird is pictured between two bird-shaped animals resembling griffons but without wings. Dimensions: H. 0.07, Diam. of rim 0.235, Diam. of base 0.08 m. On the ground tufted plants. Yellow, very good quality glaze covers the inner surface and the edge of the rim on the outside. 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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British Museum
Gold Earring; semi-circular; with U-shaped loop to which is attached a similarly shaped thin plat...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: ca. 1100, Made ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cross, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1100, Made in Constantinople, Materials: Cloisonne enamel...
Pectoral cross with busts of Jesus Christ and saints, silver-gilt. On the reverse, the engraved i...
The State Hermitage Museum
Diptych Showing Twelve Festive Scenes, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: Late 10th century. Materi...
British Museum
Relief icon; rectangular bronze plaque cast in low relief with full-length Hodegetria flanked by ...
The Cleveland Art Museum
Fragment of a Tunic, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: first half of 7th century, Made in: Egypt. M...
Enkolpion Reliquary Cross with Crucifixion and the Virgin, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa 10th t...
British Museum (Stop W), London, United Kingdom
Gold coin; Ruler: Constantine V Copronymus; Leo III, Byzantine Emperor; Period: Middle Byzantine;...
Opening of Gospel of Matthew. Period: Middle Byzantine. 1063 A.D. The museum is open to the publi...
Roundel with Emperor John II Comnenus. Period: Byzantine, ca. 1110 – 1118. Material: marble...
Evangelist Mark, Period: Middle Byzantine, ca. 1063. The museum is open to the public Tuesday thr...
Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: Mid-11th century. Size: 22 x 20 (8.7 x 7.9). Materia...
Brisith Museum
Gold coin; Ruler: Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor; Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 1143-118...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Icon with Christ Pantokrator, Period: 11th–12th century, Middle Byzantine. Material: Ivory. Dimen...
Ring of Michael Attaleiates, Period: Middle Byzantine, Date: Before 1080. Materials: enamel on go...
Seal, Theodore Kastamonites, Sebastos. The two Saints Theodore standing with their hands upraise...
Gospel Lectionary with Marginal Illuminations, Period: Middle Byzantine, 2nd half of 11th Century...
British Museum
Earring; Period: Middle Byzantine circa: 10thC-12thC. Materials: gold. British Museum is closed 2...
The State Hermitage Museum
Hyperpyron, Ruler: Alexius I, Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Between 1092 and 1118. Material: g...