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| Keywords: Byzantine - Head Ornament - Walters 57546.jpg This luxurious piece of jewelry may have been a hair ornament or one of two pendants that hung from a noblewoman's crown or headdress The small bust of a woman with a turreted crown is identified by the Greek inscription KOCMIA as a personification of Adornment The semiprecious stones were added to the piece in the 1910s as replacements for the lost original ones century 6 7 Late Antique gold and semiprecious stones cm 17 1 3 5 0 8 accession number 57 546 15766 Unknown dealer Smyrna Friedrich Ludwig von Gans Frankfurt a Main ca 1912-1920 by purchase Kurt W Bachstitz Hague 1920 by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine diadems Byzantine art in Egypt Pendilia | ||||
