Marriage ring with flat circular bezel showing the full-figure of Christ joining the hands (dextrarum iunctio) of groom (in chlamys and fibula, left) and bride (diadem with pendilia, right). Plain wire hoop.

George Zacos and A. Veglery, " An Unknown Solidus of Anastasius I," The Numismatic Circular (September 1959), pp. 154-55.

idem., "Marriage Solidi of the Fifht Century," The Numismatic Circular (April 1960), pp. 73-74.

Numismatic Literature (April 1960), p. 113.

Numismatic Literature (October 1960), pp. 301-302.

E. kantorowicz, "On the Golden Marriage Belt and the Marriage Rings of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 14 (1960), fn.35, fig. 23b.

M. Ross, Jewelry, Enamels and Art of the Migration Period, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. II, (Washington, DC, 1965), no. 66A, pl. XLII (copy in dossier).

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 202.

Gary Vikan and John Nesbitt, Security in Byzantium: Locking, Seallling, Weighing (Washington, DC, 1980), p. 19, fig. 38.

Gary Vikan, "Art and Marriage in Early Byzantium," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 44 (1990), fig. 22.

Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks, "Security in Byzantium: Locking, Sealing, Weighing," May 8 - Sept. 2, 1980.

Washington, DC, Freer Gallery of Art & the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, “Ancient and Medieval Metalwork from Dumbarton Oaks,” Dec. 16, 2005 – Apr. 1, 2007.

Said to have been found in Trebizond (modern day Trabzon, Turkey).

Purchased from George Zacos (dealer), 1961;

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.