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Gold Earrings with Pearls and Sapphires in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
Gold Earrings with Pearls and Sapphires
Byzantine, found in 1902 at Karavas, Cyprus
Made 500-700
Accession # 17.190.145, .146
These elegant earrings are decorated with pearls, a favorite jewel of the Byzantines. Sapphires, then called hyakinthoi (hyacinths), became popular in Byzantine jewelry in the sixth century.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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Byzantine, found in 1902 at Karavas, Cyprus
Made 500-700
Accession # 17.190.145, .146
These elegant earrings are decorated with pearls, a favorite jewel of the Byzantines. Sapphires, then called hyakinthoi (hyacinths), became popular in Byzantine jewelry in the sixth century.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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