Byzantine Treasures

Rating
Featured/Unfeatured
Claimed/Unclaimed
The Descent into Limbo.JPG
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Descent into Limbo, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 13th century. Dimensions: Leaf: 20.6 × 14....
Gospel Book-1.JPG
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Agony in the Garden, Manuscript, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 1200 to 1299 A.D. Place: Nica...
Pair of Earrings with Pearls, Emeralds, and Sapphires.png
Pair of Earrings. Materials: Pearls, Emeralds, Sapphires, Gold and Gems. Period: Early Byzantine,...
Sarcophagus from the Imperial Cemetery (1).JPG
Sarcophagus – from the imperial cemetery beside the Church of the Holy Apostles. Period: Ea...
Busts of Two Emperors.png
Busts of Two Emperors, Period: Roman, Circa: Late 3rd-early 4th century, Material: Chalcedony on ...
Altar Cloth or Podea-1.jpg
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Altar Cloth or Podea. Period: Late Byzantine, circa: late 14th century. Made in: probably Greece ...
Book Cover with a Cross Flanked by Cypress Trees.png
Book Cover with a Cross Flanked by Cypress Trees, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: Mid 6th Century...
Gospel Lectionary with Marginal Illuminations.png
Gospel Lectionary with Marginal Illuminations, Period: Middle Byzantine, 2nd half of 11th Century...
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame-1.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint Matthew from an Icon Frame, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: ca. 1100, Made ...
Chalice  Early Byzantine.png
Chalice, Period: Early Byzantine,  ca. 527 – 565 A.D. Materials: silver and niello. The mus...
Roman mosaic panel of Eros.png
4th century Roman mosaic panel of Eros, a circus chariot rider of the Red Fraction. From Tunisia....
ivory panel byzantium.jpg
Ivory Panel, carved with standing figures, Christ with the Virgin Mary and St John, below a pierc...
Pair of Earrings with Pearls and Garnets.png
Pair of Earrings, Materials: Gold, Gems, Pearls and Garnets. Period: Early Byzantine, circa: earl...
polycandelon.jpg
Polycandelon in the form of a pierced disk with openwork cross and nine circular perforations; Pe...
Intaglio; Late Byzantine.jpg
Octagonal intaglio, Period: Late Byzantine; circa: 14thc. Made in: Constantinople. Dimensions: He...
Icon with the Koimesis (2).jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Icon with the Koimesis, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: late 900s. Made in probably Constantinop...
Gold Coin of Alexander the Great.jpg
Gold Coin of Alexander the Great (obverse) Head of young Herakles, right, in lion scalp. Date: 32...
Ring of Leontios-1.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ring of Leontios, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 1000, Materials: Gold, niello, Inscribed: R...
Theophilus, Byzantine Emperor; 821-842; Italy.jpg
British Museum (Stop W), London, United Kingdom
Coins, Ruler: Theophilus, Byzantine Emperor; Period: Middle Byzantine circa: 821-842; Minted in: ...
Portrait of an official-1.jpg
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portrait of an official, Period: Early Byzantine Period, circa:  Late 5th–early 6th century A.D. ...
Showing 1 - 20 of 321 results