| 87 4125 An early Byzantine gold bracelet with glass inlays, 5th - 7th century Bracelet consisting of ten links that are connected to each other by tubular hinges. In the centre, a 6 mm high, hollow, oval box setting, the sides of which taper downwards towards the plate on the back. A round glass disc on the top, set with four wire clips and surrounded by gold wire. On the narrow sides, additional volutes of gold wire with a garland above. A round hole in the box under the disc. The box was probably once filled with putty made of organic material. Four links on one side of the central oval link, five on the other. These consist of similarly constructed hexagonal box settings for glass beads. In the centre of each link is a hole surrounded by a wire, in which the beads, held by a narrow strip of sheet gold, are soldered to the sides of the wire surrounding the hole. The outermost links consist of a hexagon, the inner links of a pair of hexagons, between each of which an S-shaped spiral of gold wire is inserted with a granule between the two coils. The beads are made of green, white, blue and reddish coloured glass, partly covered with an iridescent „iris“. A movable hook in a tubular hinge on one of the outer, simple links and a wire loop on the opposite outer link as a counterpart for the hook to close the bracelet. Length of the open bracelet 16 cm. Weight 36.40 g. An exceptionally beautiful and almost perfectly preserved piece of late antique jewellery, probably for a girl of the upper class of the late Roman or early Byzantine Mediterranean Empire. 325775 I - II € 5.000 4125 Lichtschirm aus verzinnter Bronze, mittelbyzantinisch, 10. - 11. Jhdt. Durchbrochen gearbeitete Scheibe mit zentralem Buckel. Außen zwischen netzförmig durchbrochenen Abschnitten sechs kreisförmige Durchbrüche für Glaseinsätze, die mit Öl und Docht gefüllt waren. Der zentrale Buckel mit drei horizontalen, durchbrochenen Streifen, mittig ein weiterer Durchbruch für einen Glaseinsatz. Der Rand auf der Unterseite mit einer Hohlkehle versehen, in der mit Draht die Aufhängung des Lichtschirms verlötet war. Durchmesser 24,3 cm. 325782 III + € 600 4124
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