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Brooch in the form of an eagle

Italian peninsula, San Marino, Domagnano
450–500 CE
Gold, garnet
Louvre Abu Dhabi
LAD 2009.008|12.10 x 6.4 cm

This luxurious brooch is a masterpiece of jewellery made during the period of great invasions that brought an end to the Roman empire of the West. Worn on a woman’s dress at the shoulder, it combines the majestic form of an eagle, the symbol of imperial power in Rome, with the cross of the new Christian age.

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