#langobardic

Glass Drinking Horn

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Langobardic (?)

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301

Date: 575–625

Geography: Made in Italy (North)

Culture: Langobardic (?)

Medium: Glass

Dimensions:  8 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (21 x 7 cm); Other (Ht. ): 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

Classification: Glass-Vessels

Ciborium Fragment. Langobardic. 8th to 9th Century CE.

Anglo-Saxon Square-Headed Bow Brooch, 500–600

2. Langobardic Square-Headed Bow Brooch, first half of 6th century

Finger Ring

4th–7th century

Gold Ornament from a Sword Grip

ca. 600

S-Shaped Brooch

late 6th century

Gilded bronze fibula

Langobardic, late 6th-early 7th century (Early Medieval)

The Langobards, perhaps inspired by jewelry of the Goths, developed bird-headed, S-shaped fibulae during their 6th-century settlement in Pannonia (present-day Hungary). The body was cast from a carved mold and finished with gold gilding. The eyes originally were set with stones or glass. On the back, an iron pin set into a bronze hinge and J-shaped catch held the pin in place. The hinge and the catch are intact, while remains of the iron pin and the fragments of the textile to which this pin was attached remain in the hinge.