Plate with David's Confrontation with Eliab, 629–630


Plate with David's Confrontation with Eliab, 629–630, Made in Constantinople, Byzantine, Silver, Overall: 5 1/2 x 7/8 in., (14 x cm, 380g), Metalwork-Silver, In 628–29 the Byzantine emperor Herakleios (r. 610–41) successfully ended a long, costly war with Persia and regained Jerusalem, Egypt, and other Byzantine territory. Silver stamps dating to 613–29/30 on the reverse of these masterpieces place their manufacture in Herakleios’s reign


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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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