Description
Jewelry collection. Migration period, ca. 6th century AD. Including a silver belt buckle with eagle's head (l 11.7 cm, partly verdigris deposits, intact) with red and green glass inlays, a bronze strap tongue with punched silver sheet overlay (l 7.3 cm, back partly corroded), a pair of silver cuff bracelets with profiled ends (ø 6 and 6.3cm, intact), a pair of gilt silver bow brooches (L 6.5cm, partly corroded) with semicircular head plate and rhombic foot plate as well as notched decoration, a pair of silver hoop earrings (L approx. 4.2cm, intact) with pyramid-shaped, immovable pendants of granulated beads, a silver ring (ring size 57, part of a volute broken) with wire volutes on the band and set glass stone on the plate, and a necklace of polychrome, predominantly spherical glass beads (l approx. 78cm, modern thread, intact, wearable). 10 pieces! Cf. Merovingian period - Europe without borders. Archaeology and history of the 5th to 8th century. Exhibition Berlin (2007) p. 294 no. I.8.11 (belt buckle with eagle's head), p. 320 no. I.33.4 (earrings), p. 323 no. I.33.9.2 (bracelets) p. 344 no. III.1.1.1.c) (strap tongue). Provenance: Ex Austrian private collection M.S., since the 1970s. In Germany since 2019.
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Jewelry collection. Migration period, ca. 6th century AD. In
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