Byzantine Treasures

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Calyx (Chalice).png
Cleveland Art Museum of Art
Calyx (Chalice), Period: Middle Byzantine, 900s-1000s. Blood jasper (heliotrope) with gilt-copper...
Silver Coin of Alexander the Great.jpg
Silver Coin of Alexander the Great. Head of young Herakles, right, in lion scalp. (reverse) Zeus ...
Constantine Xeros, sebastos (twelfth century, second half).jpg
Constantine Xeros, Sebastos. Period: Late Byzantine, 12th.c. second half. Translation: May you, a...
Solidus of Constantine I (306–337).png
Solidus of Constantine I (306–337), Material: Gold.  The museum is open to the public Tuesday thr...
pendant gold.jpg
Pendant; material: gold; hollow box building; in the form of a bent leaf; obverse chased and conv...
Bronze Signet Ring.jpg
Bronze Signet Ring,  Period: Early Byzantine, high circular bezel rudely engraved in intaglio wit...
Gospels of Luke and John (Dumbarton Oaks MS 4)  Middle Byzantine.png
Gospels of Luke and John, Period:Middle Byzantine, circa: Late 12th-early 13th century A.D.  The ...
Diptych Showing Twelve Festive Scenes.jpg
The State Hermitage Museum
Diptych Showing Twelve Festive Scenes, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: Late 10th century. Materi...
Rooster Lamp.png
Rooster Lamp, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 5th-6th century. Purchased from Fouad Alouf (dealer...
Textile Fragment.jpg
Textile Fragment, Materials: silk and cotton. Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 8thc-9thc. Rectang...
byzantine seal John Tarchaneiotes.jpg
Seal, John Tarchaneiotes, Period: Late Byzantine, 13 th. century. (second half).  St. John the Ba...
Button, 500s.png
Button, Early Byzantine circa: 500s. Materials: Rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold gran...
Fragment of a Tunic (2).jpg
The Cleveland Art Museum
Fragment of a Tunic, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 5th – 7th century; Materials: tapestry...
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Steelyard Weight with a Bust of a Byzantine Empress and a Hook. This Byzantine steelyard weight d...
Vollschmelz Medallion.jpg
Vollschmelz medallion (9th Century – Middle Byzantine Period). Gold cloisonné; bust of St. ...
Harness Ornaments-Late Roman (1).jpg
Harness Ornaments. Period: Late Roman; circa: 200–400. Geography: Made in Thrace (possibly). The ...
Chain with Two Pendants and a Cross (2).jpg
The Cleveland Art Museum
Chain with Two Pendants and a Cross, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 6th century. Type of art wor...
Gold Cross.jpg
Cross, with a decorative quatrefoil rosette at the juncture of the arms. Materials: gold. Period:...
Sarcophagus Fragment of  Emperor Constantine the Great (?) .JPG
Sarcophagus Fragment of Emperor Constantine the Great (?) Materials: Porphyry Period: Early Byzan...
Relief icon, Middle Byzantine.jpg
Relief icon; rectangular bronze plaque cast in low relief with full-length Hodegetria flanked by ...
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