Byzantine Treasures

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Dish of Brown, Middle Byzantine.jpg
Dish of brown, fine-grained clay covered with a white slip. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Late...
Tremissis of Emperor Maurice Tiberius-1.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Tremissis of Emperor Maurice Tiberius, Period: ca. 582–602, Early Byzantine, Material: Gold. On ...
Relief icon, Middle Byzantine.jpg
Relief icon; rectangular bronze plaque cast in low relief with full-length Hodegetria flanked by ...
Octagonal Marriage Ring with Holy Site Scenes (2).png
Octagonal Marriage Ring with Holy Site Scenes, Period: Early Byzantine, circa:  7th Century. Mate...
Gold Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria-1.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gold Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria, Period: Middle...
Pendant Cross with Birds and Zoe-Phos.png
Pendant Cross with Birds and Zoe-Phos, Period:  Early Byzantine, circa Late 6th Century. Material...
Silver Coin of Alexander the Great.jpg
Silver Coin of Alexander the Great. Head of young Herakles, right, in lion scalp. (reverse) Zeus ...
Mosaic Panel.JPG
Mosaic Panel. Period: Early Byzantine;  circa: Late 6th – early 7th century. Findspot: Ista...
gold necklace.jpg
Three sections of a Gold necklace. Materials: sapphires, emeralds, cornelians and pearls. Period:...
Silver Bucket.jpg
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Silver Bucket, Period: Early Byzantine circa: 600s. Made in Tirana, Modern Albania. (Found in Vra...
Horse and Lion Hanging  Early Byzantine.png
Horse and Lion Hanging, Period: Early Byzantine, 6th century A.D. Materials: wool and linen. The ...
Medallion with Saint John the Evangelist from an Icon Frame-1.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint John the Evangelist from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 110...
Almond-Shaped Pendant.png
Almond-Shaped Pendant, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 400-600. Materials: gold, lapis lazuli, ga...
Pendant cross.jpg
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pendant Cross, support for a candelabrum or incense-holder. Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 8th ...
Page from an Armenian Manuscript of the Romance of Alexander.png
Page from an Armenian Manuscript of the Romance of Alexander. Period: Post-Byzantine,  1525 A.D. ...
Fragment from a Curtain-1.png
Fragment from a Curtain, Materials: tabby weave with inwoven tapestry ornament, linen and wool. P...
Solidus of Justinian I-1.jpg
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Solidus of Justinian I, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 552–565 A.D. Minted in: Ravenna, Material...
Enkolpion with Crucifixion, Busts of the Virgin, St. John and Two Saints.png
Enkolpion with Crucifixion, Busts of the Virgin, St. John and Two Saints. Period: Early Byzantine...
Necklace with Pearls, Sapphires, and Plasma.png
Necklace. Materials: Pearls, Sapphires, Gold, Gems and Plasma. Period: Early Byzantine, circa: ea...
Stone Relief, Military Saints Dimitrios and Theodoros.jpg
Relief from the exterior ornamentation of a church at Amaseia in the Pontos. Materials: stone, Pe...
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