Shoe Buckle

4th-5th century (Early Medieval)

5.4 cm 2.6 cm 1.9 cm

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This gold buckle is divided by cloisons (wire strips) into compartments set with garnets. Two rectangular garnets adorn the tongue near its hinge and two small round garnets form the eyes of the horse-head terminal on its tip.

Artifact

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30772
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Steinamanger Museum (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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