Byzantine Jewellery
| Greek art in its Byzantine Age (4th-l5th centuries) continues, vital and without break, in all categories, jewellery included, the techniques and modes bequeathed to Byzantium by Graeco-Roman tradition. Following the rainbow of a centuries-long course, an achieves greatness in. its new synthesis. Through authentic forms and ideas that laud the glory of God and the grandeur of the emperor, through symmetry, harmony and brilliance of materials and colours, it hymns the spiritual theoria, treats might aright and evaluates beauty with rhythms of impenturbable order, its most splendid expressions reaching insurpassable heights that sanctify the memory of the ecumenical Byzantine Empire. | |
| Fig 1 Athens, Byzantine Museum, T 2763. Gold hemispherical earrings with dotted outline. Diam 1.4cm. 2nd-3rd centuries. |
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| Fig. 2 Athens, Byzantine Museum, T 2769. Gold earrings of rosette plates with three pendent granulated rods terminating in uncut emeralds. Dimensions: 4.5 X 2cm. 3rd-4th centuries. |