- Museum number
- 1865,0518.9
- Description
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Gilt-silver cloisonné disc brooch: one of pair; pairs of cracked red glass cloisons (only two remaining whole) alternate with cruciform arrangement of paired heart-shaped olivine cloisons; central flat-topped cabochon garnet; border of rectangular red glass and garnet cloisons and pearls set between each pair (two remaining); about a third of border missing; beaded wire round the base; pin missing.
- Production date
- 5thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Pair with 1865,0518.10
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Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Found at 'Annaba (formerly Hippo, then Bône), Algeria; from grave with nos. 1865,0518.4-5, 7-8 and 10-28; there is no direct evidence of the grave groups, but the bill of purchase (16.5.1865) differentiates the contents of "two Byzantine tombs" and this is repeated in Franks 1865; Annual Returns for 1865, p. 15, state the objects "were obtained in the country" by vendor
Published:
DE BAYE, BARON J. 1888. Bijoux vandales des environs de Bône (Afrique), Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France, 5th series 8, Paris, pp. 181, 188-91, pl. X:1
BOULANGER C. 1909. Le Cimetière Franco-Mérovingien et Carolingien de Marchélepot (Somme). Étude sur l'Origine de l'Art Barbare. Paris, p. 20, fig. 25
TENISHEVA M.K. 1930. Emal i Inkrustatsya, Seminarium Kondakovianum. Prague, pp. 102, 113, pl. XL:162
RUPP H. 1937. Die Herkunft der Zelleneinlage und die Almandin-Scheibenfibeln im Rheinland, Rheinische Forschungen zur Vorgeschichte II. Bonn, pp. 68, 73, 142, pl. XVIII:6
RUPP H. 1937. Die Herkunft der Zelleneinlage und die Almandin-Scheibenfibeln im Rheinland, Rheinische Forschungen zur Vorgeschichte II. Bonn, pp. 87, 117, 119, 159, 217, 236 no. BM 3
BIERBRAUER V. 1973. Die ostgotischen Funde von Domagnano, Republik San Marino (Italien), Germania 51 part 2, Berlin, pp. 503, 511, fig. 3 no.4; BIERBRAUER V. 1975. Die Ostgotischen Grab- und Schatzfunde in Italien, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, Studi Mediaevali VII. Spoleto, p. 73, 163, pl. LXXXI:2
ROTH H. 1981. Almandinhandel und -verarbeitung im Bereich des Mittelmeeres, in H. Müller-Karpe (ed) Beiträge zur allgemein und vergleichenden Archäologie 2, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Bonn, p. 328 fig. 6:2
ARRHENIUS B. 1985. Merovingian Garnet Jewellery, emergence and social implications, Kunglig Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens. Stockholm, pp. 120, 201 no. 33, 208 no. BM 3, fig. 102, map 1:5
ARRHENIUS B. 1985. Merovingian Garnet Jewellery, emergence and social implications, Kunglig Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens. Stockholm, p. 78 no. 18, p. 100 no. 167, fig. 19:167
- Location
- On display (G41/dc17)
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1865,0518.9
