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Source Description
This luxurious piece of jewelry may have been a hair ornament, or one of two pendants that hung from a noblewoman's crown or headdress. The small bust of a woman with a turreted crown is identified by the Greek inscription "KOCMIA" as a personification of Adornment. The semiprecious stones were added to the piece in the 1910s as replacements for the lost original ones.
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Document identity
localId
15766
label
Head Ornament
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
15766
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Head Ornament
description
This luxurious piece of jewelry may have been a hair ornament, or one of two pendants that hung from a noblewoman's crown or headdress. The small bust of a woman with a turreted crown is identified by the Greek inscription "KOCMIA" as a personification of Adornment. The semiprecious stones were added to the piece in the 1910s as replacements for the lost original ones.
provenance
Unknown dealer, Smyrna; Friedrich Ludwig von Gans, Frankfurt a. Main, ca. 1912-1920, by purchase; Kurt W. Bachstitz, Hague, 1920, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
6th-7th century (Late Antique)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Gold, Silver & Jewelry
ornaments
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
17.1
height
3.5
depth
0.8
dimensionsRaw
6 3/4 x 1 3/8 x 5/16 in. (17.1 x 3.5 x 0.8 cm)
Source extras
cul
Byzantine
med
gold, semiprecious stones
creator_ids
6640
collection_ids
ROM
BYZ
JWL
exhibition_ids
358
2513
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
f5ef97f007dab890
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
3e436b7605d9d950
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no