Dumbarton Oaks - Ring with Double Bezel with Cruciform Inscriptions

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Ring with Double Bezel with Cruciform Inscriptions

Early Byzantine
9th century - 10th century
2 cm (13/16 in.)
gold with pearls
BZ.1953.12.79

Not on view

Permalink: http://museum.doaks.org/objects-1/info/27083

Additional Images

Bezel

Three-quarter view

Bibliography

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. 71, pl. XLV (copy in dossier)

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 207.

A. Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Byzantinischer Schmuck des 9. bis frühen 13. Jarhunderts (Wiesbaden, 2011), p. 373, fig. 30.

Acquisition History

Purchased by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss from George Zacos (dealer) Istanbul, July 24, 1953.

Gift of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss to Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 1953.

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

Object Last Modified: 8/18/2021