Part of a Necklace

ca. 582-602 (Late Antique)

2.6 cm 20 cm 1 cm

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The Roman practice of mounting gold coins as jewelry continued in the Early Byzantine period with this section from a necklace. The other half would have been a mirror image, with gold and lapis lazuli "double-cone" beads and two more coins of Emperor Maurice Tiberios (ruled 5...

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[Found in Upper Egypt]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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