Shoe Buckle
Unknown
400–450 · Gold with garnets · Medieval Art
It is possible that buckles like this one were made in Byzantine workshops and given to barbarians in an effort to persuade them to become Roman allies.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 400–450
- Medium
- Gold with garnets
- Culture
- Hunnic or Frankish
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
