Ornament
ca. 929-1010 (made)
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Silver-gilt ornament composed of a central ring with a stone missing from the centre, surrounded by eight rings with filigree sides forming a rosette
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gilded copper alloy with filigree decoration, one with a missing stone, the other with a missing setting |
| Brief description | Rosette ornament of gilded copper alloy with filigree sides, one with a stone missing, the other with a missing setting; probably from a necklace; found with a coin hoard in Murcia, made in the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba, 929-1010 |
| Physical description | Silver-gilt ornament composed of a central ring with a stone missing from the centre, surrounded by eight rings with filigree sides forming a rosette |
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| Historical context | Found with a coin hoard in Murcia, one of only two known hoards from Moorish Spain |
| Production | Made in the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba; found in Lorca, Murcia |
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| Bibliographic reference | Mariam Rosser-Owen, Islamic Arts from Spain, London, 2010, p.26. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1452-1870 |
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| Record created | August 2, 2005 |
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