COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.17.190.1667
AMICA Library Year:
2001
Object Type:
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Nationality:
Asian; Anatolian; Byzantine
Creator Name-CRT:
Byzantine
Title:
Necklace
View:
Principal view
Creation Date:
6th-7th c.
Creation Start Date:
500
Creation End Date:
699
Materials and Techniques:
Gold-wrought sheet, rod; wire-block twisted, beaded; strip-rectangular sectioned; granulation; pearl, quartz, sapphire, smokey quartz.
Dimensions:
L. 45.2 cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
17.190.1667
Credit Line:
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Provenance:
Ex coll.: [Maurice Nahman, Cairo]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York
Context:
Said to have been found near Assiût or Antinoë (Upper Egypt)
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.dp30693.tif