Byzantine Bulla
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Byzantine Bulla
330 - 1453
Clay
1 3/16 in. (diameter) x 3/16 in. (3 cm x 0.4 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
C.1430
Classification:
Exchange Media; Coins
Culture/Nationality:
Byzantine
Collection:
C. Densmore Curtis Collection
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- Byzantine - Culture, style, and period of the Christian states of the eastern Mediterranean during the rule of the Byzantine Empire (330 - 1453 CE). Byzantine art and culture was carried throughout much of the Christian world, and lasted into the 16th century in eastern Europe. The style is characterized by imperial and religious subject matter, and a movement away from the original Greek naturalistic forms to favor ritualistic stylization, intended to suggest the spiritual. For the culture and style of the Italian and western Mediterranean Christian world roughly from the third to the mid-ninth century CE, use "Early Christian."
- coins - Pieces of metal stamped by government authority for use as money.
- crosses potent - Crosses with arms terminating in potents, which are bars forming a T-shape.
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Owner Name: Clarissa Compton Dryden, Class of 1932, MA 1935
Role: Donor
Place: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Acquisition Method: Inherited
Disposal Method: Donation
Ownership Start Date: 1925
Ownership End Date: 1983
Remarks: A relative of archaeologist, Charles Densmore Curtis (1875-1925), Dryden presented the Ella Riegel Museum with items she inherited from his collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan artifacts throughout the 1950s-1980s
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Owner Name: Charles Densmore Curtis (1875-1925)
Role: Collector
Disposal Method: Bequest
Ownership Start Date: LIkely ca. 1900 or later
Ownership End Date: 1925
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