- Museum number
- 1866,1229.23
- Description
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Furniture ornament; silver with gilding; hollowed, one-piece casting; rectangular socket: square in section; framed with rectilinear moulding; two aligned holes for pin; terminating in a seated female figure representing the Tyche of Constantinople: plastically rendered, detailed with decorative engraving, stippling and gilded drapery; figure wears tunic, mantle, boots, armlet and crested helmet and holds a patera and a cornucopia; below the figure: hinged, pierced, stippled and punched leaf with rounded knob finial. One of a set with 1866,1229.21, 22 and 24.
- Production date
- 330-370 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 179 millimetres
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Weight: 706 grammes
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Width: 64 millimetres
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Depth: 84 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For metallurgical analysis see: M.J. Hughes and J.A. Hall, "X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Late Roman and Sassanian Silver", Journal of Archaeological Science 6 (1979), p. 327.
In set with 1866,1229.24 and 1866,1229.21-22.
- Location
- On display (G41/dc7)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015, Oct 29 – 2016, Feb 7. British Museum, Room 35. Egypt: Faith after the Pharoahs
2012-2013 11 Nov-25 Aug, USA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tradition Transformed: Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
2010 4 Jun-4 Sep, Turkey, Istanbul, The Sakip Sabanci Museum, Byzantium to Istanbul: 8000 years of a Capital
2008 25 Oct-2009 22 Mar, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Byzantium 330-1453 AD
2007 2 Jun-4 Nov, Germany, Trier, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Constantine the Great
2006 31 Mar-29 Oct, York, Yorkshire Museum, Constantine
2005 13 Mar-4 Sep, Italy, Rimini, Castel Sismondo, Constantine the Great
2004 26 Jun-29 Aug, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 10 Apr-13 Jun, Fukuoka Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 17 Jan-28 Mar, Kobe City Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2003 18 Oct-14 Dec, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2001 6 Sep-30 Dec, USA, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Antioch – The Lost Roman City
2001 18 Mar-3 Jun, USA, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Antioch – The Lost Roman City
2000 7 Oct-2001 4 Feb, USA, Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Antioch – The Lost Roman City
1990 24 Jan-22 Apr, Italy, Milan, Royal Palace of Milan, Milano Capitale dell’ Impero
1983-1984 15 Dec-11 Mar, Germany, Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, Late Antiquity and Early Christianity
1977-1978 18 Nov-12 Feb, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Early Christian Art
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1866,1229.23
