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Antiquities Discussion Forums => Fibulae and Clothing Items => Topic started by: Gert on February 17, 2022, 02:29:47 pm

Title: Belt buckle (Byzantine? or from somewhere else?)
Post by: Gert on February 17, 2022, 02:29:47 pm

Hi,
This belt buckle was part of a lot of Byzantine coins and artifacts. I wonder if someone can point me to some parallels, because I can't find anything Byzantine that is obviously similar.
Regards
Gert

Title: Re: Belt buckle (Byzantine? or from somewhere else?)
Post by: SC on February 17, 2022, 06:10:34 pm

This looks like a medieval Byzantine buckle plate.

Square plates with a griffon design, but with a long vertical hole on the right side, likely to loop the leather through, are Schulze-Dorrlamm's type G2 and G3 dated from the late 8th to the early 10th centuries.

Yours without the vertical hole must be roughly similar.

SC

Title: Re: Belt buckle (Byzantine? or from somewhere else?)
Post by: Gert on February 18, 2022, 03:09:27 am

Thanks a lot!
Gert