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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Pendant Cross, Material: Gold. Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 500s. The Cleveland Art Museum Hou...
Cross, with a decorative quatrefoil rosette at the juncture of the arms. Materials: gold. Period:...
British Museum
Gold Earring; Square; on one face a cheque of triangular groups of pellets, above an animal’...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This medallion of Christ is from a group of twelve that once surrounded an icon of the archangel ...
Byzantine Pectoral Cross (front and back), Period: Late Byzantine circa: 1200–1400 A.D. , Benaki ...
Tapestry panel: Head of a man. Coptic, Egypt. Period: Early Byzantine circa: 4th-5th century A.D....
Reliquary of St. Zacharias, Period: Early Byzantine, 6th Century, Material: Gold and gems. The m...
The Met Fifth Avenue
Buckle with Garnets. Period: Early Byzantine; circa:400–500 A.D. Material: gold. Made in: Constan...
Paten with the Communion of the Apostles, Period: Early Byzantine (565-578 A.D.) Materials: silve...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Cross Pendant, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 500–700s. Material: Gold. Dimensions: 3 9/16...
Sarcophagus – from the imperial cemetery beside the Church of the Holy Apostles. Period: Ea...
British Museum
Gold coin of Constantine IV; Period: Early Byzantine Period; Date: 654-685; Minted in Rome. Briti...
Tapestry fragment Egyptian (Coptic), Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 5th-6th century A.D. Materia...
Benediction Cross, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200s-1400s. Materials: black schist, gold, sil...
Rooster Lamp, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 5th-6th century. Purchased from Fouad Alouf (dealer...
Book Cover with a Cross Flanked by Cypress Trees, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: Mid 6th Century...
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...
British Museum
Personal gold ornament; Period: Early Byzantine Period; circa: 6thC-7thC. Length: 8 millimetres, ...
Solidus of Constantinus III, Mint: Constantinople, Period: A.D. 641–668, Early Byzantine. Materia...
British Museum
Pendant Cross, Period: Early Byzantine (7thc.) Height: 55.8 millimetres Width: 37.2 millimetres D...