One of a Pair of Gold Earrings 550–650 Avar In the 500s and early 600s, when the Avars were regularly receiving enormous payments from the Byzantine Empire, virtually all free men and women wore distinctive large earrings fashioned from the pure gold of melted Byzantine One of a Pair of Gold Earrings 465086 Avar, One of a Pair of Gold Earrings, 550?650, Gold, Other: 2 3/16 ? 7/8 ? 13/16 in., Troy Ounces ( ? ? 2 cm, 16g) Other (hoop): 7/8 in. ( cm) Other (bead): 1 3/16 x 13/16 x 13/16 in. (3 x 2 x 2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morg
One of a Pair of Gold Earrings 550–650 Avar In the 500s and early 600s, when the Avars were regularly receiving enormous payments from the Byzantine Empire, virtually all free men and women wore distinctive large earrings fashioned from the pure gold of melted Byzantine One of a Pair of Gold Earrings 465086 Avar, One of a Pair of Gold Earrings, 550?650, Gold, Other: 2 3/16 ? 7/8 ? 13/16 in., Troy Ounces ( ? ? 2 cm, 16g) Other (hoop): 7/8 in. ( cm) Other (bead): 1 3/16 x 13/16 x 13/16 in. (3 x 2 x 2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 ()
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