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Gold necklace with sapphires, amethysts, emeralds and pearls. Period: Early Byzantine. Place/Findspot: Antinoë in Egypt. The Ravenna mosaics portray this kind of precious jewelry, widespread during Early Christian times, being worn by ladies of the imperial court of Theodora.
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. It was converted into a museum in order to shelter the collections of Antonis Benakis and was donated to the Greek nation by himself and his three sisters, Alexandra, Penelope and Argine. Following its most recent refurbishment (1989–2000), the building houses a unique exhibition on Greek culture arranged diachronically from prehistory to the 20th century.
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Plate with a Tigress Attacking an Ibex, Eastern Mediterranean, Material: Silver. Period: Early By...
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Hanging with Hestia Polyolbus, Period: Early Byzantine, First half of 6th Century. The museum is ...
Museum of Fine Arts - Outbound, Boston, MA, United States
Ring in openwork filigree, Period: Early Byzantine circa (A.D. 550–650). Materials: Gold. The MFA...
The State Hermitage Museum
Cross, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6th c. Made in: Constantinople. Material: gold. Dimensions...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Cross Pendant, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 500–700s. Material: Gold. Dimensions: 3 9/16...
British Museum
Octagonal intaglio, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 14thc. Made in: Constantinople. Dimensions: He...
British Museum
Gold Earring, Period: Early Byzantine. circa: 6thC-7thC. Found/Acquired: Erythraea (Europe,Greec...
British Museum
Pair of Loop Earrings; Materials: Gold. Period: Early Byzantine. 6thC-7thC. Subjects: Cross, Peac...
Dumbarton Oaks Museum
Horse and Lion Hanging, Period: Early Byzantine, 6th century A.D. Materials: wool and linen. The ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ring of Leontios, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1000, Materials: Gold, niello, Inscribed: R...
British Museum
Polycandelon in the form of a pierced disk with openwork cross and nine circular perforations; Pe...
Dumbarton Oaks Museum
Chalice, Period: Early Byzantine, ca. 527 – 565 A.D. Materials: silver and niello. The mus...
British Museum
Gold Earring; Square; on one face a cheque of triangular groups of pellets, above an animal’...
British Museum
Gold Oval Pendant; embossed with a figure of the Virgin standing in the attitude of an orans wit...
British Museum
Gold Finger Ring; Early Byzantine. (6thc-7thc) Slender hoop and applied oval bezel engraved with ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, Period: Early Byzantine circa: 500–5...
British Museum
Ivory Panel, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6th c. Made in: Syria. Dimensions: Height: 16.3 cent...
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Solidus of Constans II, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 661–663. Minted in: Constantinople, Mater...
Dumbarton Oaks Museum
Reliquary of St. Zacharias, Period: Early Byzantine, 6th Century, Material: Gold and gems. The m...
British Museum
Counterpoise weight, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6th c. Material: Bronze. British Museum is c...
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Byzantine Pectoral Cross (front and back), Period: Late Byzantine circa: 1200–1400 A.D. , Benaki ...
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Heraldic Eagle. Decorated with a garnet and glass paste. Material: gold. Period: Early Byzantine;...
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Oval cameo of glass paste, with a representation of St Dimitrios. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa...
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Small icon of St Nicholas. Period: Late Byzantine; circa: First half of 13th century. Materials:...
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Veil Embroidered with Gold Thread. Period: Late Byzantine; circa: end of the 13th or beginning of...
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Icon of Depicting Virgin Mary Thornousa, which was probably part of a wider composition depicting...
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Small steatite icon of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple , in high relief. Period: Late By...
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Double-sided circular jewellery attachment. Christ Pantokrator is depicted on one side and the Vi...
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Medallion with a Bust of St Symeon; Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 10th-11th c. Materials: gold...
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Relief from the exterior ornamentation of a church at Amaseia in the Pontos. Materials: stone, Pe...
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Dish of brown, fine-grained clay covered with a white slip. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Late...
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Pectoral cross with busts of Jesus Christ and saints, silver-gilt. On the reverse, the engraved i...
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Three sections of a Gold necklace. Materials: sapphires, emeralds, cornelians and pearls. Period:...
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Ring, Materials: Gold. Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 6th-7th c. Ring with busts of saints on th...
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Key, Materials: Bronze. Made in: Constantinople. Period: Early Byzantine (?). The Benaki Museum o...
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Cross, with a decorative quatrefoil rosette at the juncture of the arms. Materials: gold. Period:...
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Ring with cross-shaped quatrefoil calyx bezel. Materials: gold. Period: Early Byzantine; circa: ...