BARBARIC AND LATE BYZANTINE JEWELS BARBARA – MUSEUM OF THE MIDDLE AGES, ROME

The Gothic Lombard– and late Byzantine jewelry in gold is largely characterized by vivid polychromy.
Earring with dodecahedron-shaped buckle, ring with oval plate (Reggio Emilia, Chierici Museum, fifth century).
Lombard Fibula with stylized cattle heads motifs (Rome, Museum of the Middle Ages, seventh century).
Gothic Fibula with strong stylized eagle in garnet and rock crystal (Rome, Capitoline Museum, fifth century).
Seventh-century Byzantine Earrings with figurative elements of little heads of female on the reverse an imprint of a gold coin of Heraclius and Tiberius (Naples, Archaeological Museum, a.659-668).
Lombard boss with polychrome decoration of garnet and stone Alamandini (Parma, Museum of Antiquities, the first half of the seventh century).
Necklace made of beads of coral and variegated glass gems, with gold pendants (Rome, Museum of the Middle Ages, seventh century).