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elongated ears
Width: 2 7/8 inches (7
The shoulder is rounded and surmounted by a wide
The Met sent eight staff members to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to cast replicas directly from the artifacts
The small jug features elegant spiral motifs and bold linear decorations in a reddish-brown pigment against a black-painted background
A Byzantine Gold Star Pendant, Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 6th–8th century CE Tools & Weapons elongated earsAn exquisite Byzantine pendant of high karat gold, meticulously fashioned as a six pointed star. The front is ornamented with a raised domed boss encircled by delicate twisted wire filigree. Each arm of the star is further decorated with a single twisted wire circle, the precision of the work underscoring the technical mastery of the Byzantine goldsmith. The reverse is plain and lightly convex, the pendant formed of thin hammered sheet gold and