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Gold and glass mount or pendant

$400.00

last quarter of IV – beginning of V century

Tear-drop flat blue glass framed by gold wall with fine granulation along the perimeter and forming triangle at the point. Silver backing plate. Thick iridescence on glass surface. L. 16mm.
For similar see: Banc A. L’art Byzantin. Dans les Musees de L’union Sovietique. Leningrad, 1977, cat. 93-94; For similar mount see: Herzog R., Koller A. Die Alamannen. Stuttgart, 1997, p.179; Kiss A. Die Skiren im Karpatenbecken, inhre Sohnitze und ihre materielle Hinterlassehschaft. AH. 35. Budapest, 1983, s.122, Abb. 15.1; Werner J. 1956, B. Tafelteil. Beitrage der Archaologie des Attila- Reiches. Munchen, Taf.9,3 c; 22,6,7,8,9; Fettich N. La Trouvaille de tombe princeere Hunnique a Szeger Nagyszeksos. AH, XXXII. Budapest, 1953, pl. II,8, 10-15; XVIII, 8.

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