Byzantine Treasures

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Necklace; Glass and Amber Beads.jpg
Necklace; Materials: Glass and Amber Beads, mall bone cross and a blue faience figure of Bes. Per...
Fragment of a Curtain.jpg
The Cleveland Art Museum
Fragment of a Curtain, Period: Early Byzantine circa: 500s. Made in: Egypt, Materials: tabby weav...
Pearl, Tourmaline, Glass, Coral and Bronze Beads.JPG
Quantity of pearl, tourmaline, glass, coral and bronze beads, once attached no doubt to cloth. Pe...
Silver Bucket.jpg
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Silver Bucket, Period: Early Byzantine circa: 600s. Made in Tirana, Modern Albania. (Found in Vra...
Circular mosaic.jpg
Circular mosaic. Personification of the city of Halicarnassus. Period: Late Roman; circa: 4th c.;...
Necklace; Cross pendant; Early Byzantine.jpg
Necklace; Cross pendant; Period: Early Byzantine; 5thc.-6thc.; Materials: glass, amber, amethyst ...
Bronze Key.jpg
Key, Materials: Bronze. Made in: Constantinople. Period: Early Byzantine (?). The Benaki Museum o...
Dish of Brown, Middle Byzantine.jpg
Dish of brown, fine-grained clay covered with a white slip. Period: Middle Byzantine; circa: Late...
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: ...
Bronze Lamp from Luxor.jpg
Lamp, Made in: Luxor, Egypt. Period: Early Byzantine circa: 6th-7th century. Subjects: Cross, bir...
Busts of Two Emperors.png
Busts of Two Emperors, Period: Roman, Circa: Late 3rd-early 4th century, Material: Chalcedony on ...
Gold coin of Constantine V.jpg
British Museum (Stop W), London, United Kingdom
Gold coin; Ruler: Constantine V Copronymus; Leo III, Byzantine Emperor; Period: Middle Byzantine;...
Miliarensis.jpg
The State Hermitage Museum
Miliarensis of Basil II and Constantine VIII, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: Between 989 and 10...
Saint Luke-2.JPG
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Saint Luke, Manuscript, Period: Late Byzantine circa: early 13th century. Place: Nicomedia (Moder...
Gold coin of Leontius II.jpg
Gold coin. Ruler: Leontius II; Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 695-698; Minted in: Rome. British ...
Signet Ring of John, Imperial Spatharios-1.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Signet Ring of John, Imperial Spatharios, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: 10th century, Material...
Virgin and Child, Late Byzantine (2).jpg
The Cleveland Art Museum
Virgin and Child, Medium: tempera and gold on wood, Type of art work: Painting, Period: Late Byza...
12th Century Byzantine Tunic.jpg
The Kunsthistorisches Museum
Tunic from Palermo; Blue and red velvet, gold embroidery, gold appliqués with cloisonné enamel an...
icon with St Nicholas.jpg
Small  icon of St Nicholas. Period: Late Byzantine; circa: First half of 13th century. Materials:...
Two peacocks mosaic.jpg
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mosaic, Two Peacocks Perch on a Fountain, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: A.D. 450–462. The MFA i...
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