Late Roman, 3rd–4th century; gold, modern pearls; 34.5 × 1.5 cm (13 ½ × 9/16 in.). BZ.1950.12
This necklace features links in the shape of double grains of wheat. The precise function of this piece is unclear: although very small for a necklace, it may once have featured more links, or have been sewn to a fabric backing.
Provenance
- Alexandre Fara, Beirut; purchased from Fara by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, DC, December 1949; gifted by Blisses to Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC, August 1950.
Selected Bibliography
- M. C. Ross, Jewelry, Enamels and Art of the Migration Period, vol. 2 of Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (Washington, DC, 1965; 2nd ed. with addendum by S. A. Boyd and S. R. Zwirn, 2005), 14–15, no. 9, plate 16.
- C. Kondoleon, ed., Antioch: The Lost Ancient City (Princeton, 2000), 125, no. 15.