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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.
The State Hermitage Museum
Ring Decorated with a Monogram, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 7th century. Found: Pereshchepina...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Solidus of Valentinian I (364–75), Made in Nicomedia (Modern Izmit, Turkey), Material: Gold....
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame. Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1100, Made in Cons...
Istanbul Archaeological Museum
Gold Earrings, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6th century A.D. Made in: Constantinople, Material...
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Solidus of Constans II, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 661–663. Minted in: Constantinople, Mater...
The Benaki Museum
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Medallion with a Bust of St Symeon; Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 10th-11th c. Materials: gold...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mosaic, Two Peacocks Perch on a Fountain, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: A.D. 450–462. The MFA i...
British Museum
Gold Earring; Period: Early Byzantine; consisting of a tower-like ornament attached to a gold cha...
British Museum
Necklace; Cross pendant; Period: Early Byzantine; 5thc.-6thc.; Materials: glass, amber, amethyst ...
Cleveland Museum of Art
Button, Early Byzantine circa: 500s. Materials: Rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold gran...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria, Period: Middle...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Attarouthi Treasure, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 500-650s. Made in Attarouthi, Syria. Mat...
British Museum
Piece of woollen coptic textile, Period: Early Byzantine. circa: 6th century-8th century. Height:...
Cleveland Museum of Art
Lamp and Stand, Period: Early Byzantine, 4th century. Materials: Silver. 9.2 x 16 x 7 cm (3 9/16 ...
British Museum
Earring, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: 11thc. Height: 1 inches. Material: gold. British Museum ...
The Cleveland Art Museum
Crescent-Shaped Pendant, Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: 11th century. Materials: gold filigree ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ring of Leontios, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1000, Materials: Gold, niello, Inscribed: R...
museum of fine arts boston
Tremissis of Theodoric in the name of Anastasius I, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 491–518 A.D. ...
Dumbarton Oaks Museum
Reliquary Cross with the Crucifixion, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: Late 12th-early 13th century...
British Museum
Leaf-shaped pendant in opus interrasile embossed and chased with a foliate design. Period: Early ...
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Byzantine Pectoral Cross (front and back), Period: Late Byzantine circa: 1200–1400 A.D. , Benaki ...
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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: ...
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Gold necklace with sapphires, amethysts, emeralds and pearls. Period: Early Byzantine. Place/Find...