polycandelon
- Museum number
- 1994,0610.11
- Description
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Copper-alloy polycandelon in the form of a pierced disk with openwork cross and nine circular perforations; three chains attach this unit to a smaller openwork disk with trefoil finials and a cruciform monogram, which is in turn affixed to a further chain and hook.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 279 millimetres
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Height: 757 millimetres (suspended)
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Weight: 1.626 kilograms
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In set with 1994,0610.1-21
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012-2013 11 Nov-25 Aug, USA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tradition Transformed: Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
2008-2009 25 Oct-22 Mar, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Byzantium 330-1453 AD
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- From the collection of George Marcopoli. The Marcopoli family settled as traders in Aleppo, Syria, in the 16th century and were for many generations thereafter the hereditary consuls of Venice in Aleppo. The present group of objects was acquired by George Marcopoli at the end of the 19th century. On the outbreak of war in 1912 between Italy and the Ottoman Empire all Italian nationals were expelled from Syria: since then the collection has been in Europe.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1994,0610.11
