2-668-733 - © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford/Heritage Images

Pair of hemispherical gold earrings, Byzantine, c4th-7th century. Front a disc with one central and five peripheral crosses, five radiating S-curved wires, five minute rings all within a wire ring surround; back: a hemisphere, partly crashed on both earrings. Dimensions: diameter: 1.9 cmlength: 3.4 cmthickness: 1.6 cm