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Bracelet, Byzantine, 6th-7th C [d/b]

6.4 x 3.5 x 6 cm) Wt: 72g
Made in possibly Constantinople

“Heavy, rigid gold bracelets like these are opened by the pins beside the medallions at their centers. The grapevines decorating these bracelets were made by attaching small gold sheets worked as leaves and triangular groups of grapes to thick gold wires.”

The Met https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464031