Heraldic Eagle. Decorated with a garnet and glass paste. Material: gold. Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 6th-7th century. 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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Reliquary Cross with the Crucifixion, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: Late 12th-early 13th century...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria, Period: Middle...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: ca. 1100, Made ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: ca. 1100, Made in...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame. Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1100, Made in Cons...
British Museum
Gold coin. Ruler: Leontius II; Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 695-698; Minted in: Rome. British ...
Necklace. Materials: Pearls, Sapphires, Gold, Gems and Plasma. Period: Early Byzantine, circa: ea...
Double-sided circular jewellery attachment. Christ Pantokrator is depicted on one side and the Vi...
Chalice, Period: Early Byzantine, ca. 527 – 565 A.D. Materials: silver and niello. The mus...
Enkolpion with Crucifixion, Busts of the Virgin, St. John and Two Saints. Period: Early Byzantine...
Benediction Cross, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200s-1400s. Materials: black schist, gold, sil...
British Museum
Lamp, Made in: Luxor, Egypt. Period: Early Byzantine circa: 6th-7th century. Subjects: Cross, bir...
British Museum
Gold Bracelet, Period: Early Byzantine 600 (circa). Found: Syria (?). Width: 69.5 millimetres Hei...
Paten with Cross and Inscription, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: Mid 6th Century. Materials: sil...
Solidus of Constans II, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 661–663. Minted in: Constantinople, Mater...
Lamp and Stand, Period: Early Byzantine, circa 400s. 34.8 x 13.5 cm (13 11/16 x 5 5/16 in.) Mater...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Solidus of Valentinian I (364–75), Made in Nicomedia (Modern Izmit, Turkey), Material: Gold....
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plate with David Slaying a Lion, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 629–630, Materials: Silver, Made...
British Museum
Slipper; leather; with pointed toe and thick sole with gilt borders on the upper part and the fig...
British Museum
Reliquary Cross; Materials: Cloisonné Enamel and Gold, Period: Middle Byzantine (10thc.) Made in:...