Byzantine Jewelry

Rings made in the 6th-10th centuries.

Photos of early medieval earrings, and portraits with earrings from the 16th century; includes discussion of earrings in the 11th-15th centuries.

For almost a millennium , a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as "the Glass Wreck" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation , and the conservati on of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possession s of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoverie s.

A set of links to signet rings in museum collection s, as well as portraits of men wearing signet rings. Includes late Roman, Merovingia n, Frankish, Byzantine, intaglio, and heraldic signet rings, and also rings with badges, monograms, and merchant's marks.