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Museum Description: “Rectangular Weight with Busts of Two Emperors, a Gamma and an Alpha (1 oz.)”

Opaque watercolour painting on European paper of a man, possibly a factor or business agent, wearing a turban and a dhoti with an angavastra (shawl) draped over his chest and shoulder; his feet are shod. On his forehead, neck, chest and upper arms…

The Sion Treasure (BZ.1963.36.1-3,11 and BZ.1965.1.1,5,12) is an extensive and varied group of liturgical objects and church furnishings discovered in the early 1960s in southern Turkey. A significant part of this treasure is in Dumbarton Oaks, while…

Inscriptions

Obverse
Inscription language: Latin
Inscription content: D N ANASTASIVS P F AVG

Reverse
Inscription language: Latin
Inscription content: VICTORIA AVCCC monogram of Theodoric

Mintmark
Inscription position: reverse filed and…

Gold coin. (whole)
Arabic inscription within a plain and a dotted circle. (reverse)
Arabic inscription; area divided into three by two horizontal lines. (obverse)

Crescent-shaped earrings were the most popular style of Byzantine gold earrings in the sixth and seventh centuries. The jewelry was formed from sheet gold using the openwork technique, by cutting away the background and leaving the image as a…

Literally “Golden Pall” or “Golden Cloth”, the Pala d’Oro is the retable of the high alter at the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. It measures 3 meters wide by 2 meters tall and features a total of 187 enamel plaques along with numerous precious and…

Built on the foundations of the Temple of Sun God (Helios), whose cult was much distinct to the island of Rhodes in the antiquity, the palace was the residence of the governor and the island's administrative center. It was constructed in the 14th…

Side A: archaistic Athena to left. Side B: two boys wrestling.