Although akin in origin and date, this gold pendant and necklace were not necessarily made as the single unit they comprise today. Their matching hinges raise the possibility that jewelry of their kind could have been worn in various combinations by its owners.
Provenance
- Said to have been found at Hadra, near Alexandria. Khawam Brothers, Cairo (in correspondence from Royall Tyler to Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, September 1938, and subsequently) and Kalebdjian Frères, Paris; purchased from Kalebdjian by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, DC, October 1938; transferred to Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, DC, November 1940.
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), 19–20, no. 13, plate 21.
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