The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 5, 2023

Tab

600s

Byzantium, Avaric, 7th century

Gold

Overall: 5.8 x 2 cm (2 5/16 x 13/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.32

Location

106A Migration Period & Coptic

Fun Fact

Although this entered the collection with a buckle, it was later determined that they did not originally belong together.

Provenance
-1947
(Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art).
1947-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. cat. no. 432
Milliken, William M. “Byzantine Jewelry and Associated Pieces.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 7 (1947). pp. 170 & 176 www.jstor.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 57 archive.org
Bendeguz. Tobias "Riemenzungen mediteraner Gurtelgarniturenmit Monogrammen. Studien zur Chronologieund Funktion." In Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica vol 43, 151-188. Berlin: Staatliche Museen, 2011. p. 161, fig 10
Exhibition history

Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (April 25- June 22, 1947).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1947.32