Lyre-shaped buckle

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Early Byzantine
late 6th to 1st half of 7th century
Silver, gilding
length: 79 mm; width: 30 mm (loop); depth: 12 mm (loop)
Thaw Collection
2012.2:44
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Neil F. Phillips, Esq., Montreal; sale, Christie's, New York, 18 December 1997, part of lot 311; from which acquired by Eugene V. Thaw, New York and Santa Fe.
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