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Late Roman and Byzantine Art at the British Museum

The Lycurgus Cup.jpg

Ivory Panel showing an Archangel.jpg

Carved ivory leaf from a diptych.jpg

Esquiline Treasure

Furniture fittings depicting the cities of Constantinopole, Antioch, Rome and Alexandria

Mildenhall Treasure.jpg

The First Cyprus Treasure.jpg

The Muse Casket.jpg

The Projecta Casket.jpg

The Corbridge Lanx.jpg

Sutton Hoo Silver.jpg

Carthage bowl.jpg

Portable Vertical Sundial.jpg

Hoxne Hoard.jpg

Gold jewellery from the Hoxne hoard

Water Newton Treasure.jpg

Gold-glass medallion

Gold glass 2.jpg

Gold-glass medallion

The Maskell Passion Ivories.jpg

Ivory Plaque with the Adoration of the M

Three Plaques from a Casket with Apostle

Pyxis with St. Menas.jpg

Pyxis with Daniel

Ivory bust of a charioteer.jpg

Mosaics with inscription

Mosaics with Dionysus

Mosaics

The Hinton St Mary Mosaic 2.jpg

Mosaics with Meleager

Mosaics with Venus and Tritons

'Vandal' Horseman Mosaic.jpg

Coin-set Pendant.jpg

Reliquary Cross.jpg

The Wilton Cross.jpg

Bronze Statue of a Goose.jpg

Gold Breast Chain.jpg

Gold and enamel pendant reliquary.jpg

Wall Painting of the Fiery Furnace.jpg

Wall Paintings from a Roman Villa.jpg

Steatite Plaque with Crucifixion Scene.j

Panel of Nativity

The Wernher Triptych.jpg

The Borradaile Triptych.jpg

The Borradaile Oliphant.jpg

The Clephane Horn.jpg

Marble transenna with eagles and hares

Textile with Erotes figures in a boat.jp

Textile

Ampulla

Ampulla

Ampulla

Stela

Stela

Stela

Stela

Jonah Sarcophagus.jpg

Triptych Panel.jpg

Triptych Panel 3.jpg

Triptych Panel 2.jpg

Pectoral Cross

Pectoral Cross

Pectoral Cross

Reliquary Cross

Lamp

Lamp

Lamp

Weight

Weight

Weight 3.jpg

Weight 4.jpg

Buckle

Gold Seal of Thomas, Despot of Epiros.jp

Buckle

Gold bars with assayers' stamps.jpg

References

Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory (British Museum)

Room 40: Medieval Europe (British Museum)

Room 41: Sutton Hoo and Europe (British Museum)

Room 49: Roman Britain (British Museum)

Room 66: Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt (British Museum)

The Byzantine Legacy

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