Byzantine art: 37 works, 300 – 1099, mainly metalwork-silver

Culture37 works

Collection Summary

Works Held	37
Date Range	300 – 1099
Primary Department	Medieval Art (36)
Most Common Form	Metalwork-Silver (15)
Countries	5
Public Domain	37 works (100%)

Works by Century

3rd century

4th century

5th century

6th century

10th century

Departments

Medieval Art

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Forms & Classifications

Metalwork-Silver

Metalwork-Copper alloy

Ivories

Textiles-Woven

Metalwork-Gold

Ivories-Bone

Metalwork-Coins-Inscribed

Metalwork-Steel

Metalwork-Potin

Glass-Vessels

Geographic Distribution

Syria

Egypt

possibly Syria

Egypt or Syria (?)

Syria (?)

Cities Represented

Attarouthi · 16Alexandria · 1

Works Index

Title	Classification	Date	Origin
Bone Carving, Possibly of a Dionysiac Revel	Ivories	300–500	Egypt
Dionysos	Ivories-Bone	4th–6th century	Egypt
Gold Necklace with Amphora (Vase) Pendant	Metalwork-Gold	4th century	Egypt
Silenus, the Tutor of Dionysos	Ivories-Bone	4th–7th century	Egypt
Fragment of a Band with a Hare	Textiles-Woven	5th–7th century	Egypt
Fragment of a Lintel	Sculpture-Architectural	400–550	possibly Syria
Gold and Niello Bracelet	Metalwork-Gold	5th–6th century	possibly Syria
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Sandaled Right Foot	Metalwork-Copper alloy	5th century	possibly Syria
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Sandaled Right Foot	Metalwork-Copper alloy	5th century	possibly Syria
Hare	Ivories	5th–6tth century (?)	Egypt
Spoon	Metalwork-Silver	5th–6th century	Syria
Standing Lamp with a Cross on a Pricket Stand	Metalwork-Copper alloy	5th century	possibly Syria
Standing Lamp with a Cross on a Pricket Stand	Metalwork-Copper alloy	5th century	possibly Syria
Yellow-Green Hexagonal Glass Bottle with a Stylite Saint	Glass-Vessels	mid-5th–7th century	Syria (?)
Censer Frame with Inhabited Vine Scroll	Metalwork-Copper alloy	6th century	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Silver Dove	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer	Metalwork-Steel	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Potin	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
The Attarouthi Treasure - Wine Strainer	Metalwork-Silver	500–650	Syria
Wood fragment	Woodwork	ca. 6th–7th century	Egypt
Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India	Ivories	mid-500s	possibly Syria
Guilloche Lattice with Pinecone (?)	Textiles-Woven	7th–9th century	Egypt
Roundel with Amazons and a Cross	Textiles-Woven	7th–9th century (?)	Egypt or Syria (?)
Solidus of Heraclius	Metalwork-Coins-Inscribed	ca. A.D. 610–41	Byzantine
Cross	Steatites	11th century	Syria

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Data Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access