A Group of Two Visigoth Bronze Belt Plates 5th by ClioAncientArt

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Early Byzantine Military Baldric or Shoe Buckle, 6th-7th Century AD CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Byzantine Empire DATE: 7th Century AD DIMENSIONS: 3.2 cm (1.26 in.) long, including the tongue. DESCRIPTION: Intact. A superb early Byzantine buckle from a baldric (a type of belt that was worn over one shoulder and continued to the opposite hip, normally for use with a sword or other piece of equipment) or for a heavy shoe or boot. This cast bronze example features the intact lugs with circular…

A Group of Four Early Byzantine Pottery Oil Lamps

Clockwise from top left, includes the following - * Byzantine Empire, Bronze Follis of Maurice Tiberius, 582-602 AD OBVERSE: Crowned facing bust, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and eagle tipped sceptre with cross, d N mAURI C NP AUT REVERSE: Large M; cross above, ANNO X across field, B/THEUP in exergue 31 mm, SB 533. Struck Year 10 (591-592 AD). Antioch (as Theopolis) mint Fine / Fine + condition * Byzantine Empire, Romanus III, Anonymous Follis, 1028-1034 AD OBVERSE: [IC-XC] right…

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Billon Aspron Trachy OBVERSE: The Virgin enthroned facing, nimbate and wearing pallium and maphorium; She holds before Her nimbate head of the infant Christ facing; on either side of nimbus MP - Θ(V). REVERSE: ICA / AKI / OC to left, ΔЄC / ΠO / T / (H / C) to right (Isaac, Despot); Isaac standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and loros with 3 jewels at the collar, and sagion; he holds cruciform sceptre and akakia, and is crowned by manus Dei in upper field to right. Constantinople Mint…