Bracelet with Bust of Roma
Not on view
Personifications, like this one of Rome, were creations of the classical world that remained popular in Byzantium.
This work was part of a hoard found at the base of the Capitoline Hill, the center of commercial activity in Rome even after the transfer of the imperial capital to Constantinople. The jewelry was probably hidden during the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 or the Vandals in 455.
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