FIBULA WITH PORTRAITS
Gilded bronze crossbow fibula with three portraits in medallions on a massive arch. It is assumed that the presented images were those of the sons …
MEASURE, end of 4th century
А cylindrical bronze measure was discovered in 1972 together with many different objects in a hoard in the fortress. The three-line inscription informs us …
COMPASS FROM THE TOMB OF ARCHITECT/CRAFTSMAN(inv. 414 В)
Bronze compass with legs richly decorated with engraved Latin cross and different tools was found in the grave of craftsman (faber). Compass (circinus), who served …
The grave of a rich citizen of Naissus (inv. 1181,1182, 1183, 1185)
At the time of Constantine the Great in Naissus lived a young woman aged between 20 and 24 years, which belonged to the higher social …
RAILING WITH HERMS, bronze, 4th century, Mediana
The hoard containing components of bronze railing was discovered to the northwest from villa with peristyle, during excavations at Mediana in 2000. It presents part …
DEA DARDANICA, marble, second half of the 3rd–beginning of the 4th century, Mediana
Figure of a woman, lacking the head, dressed into a long, wrinkled chiton with a chimation thrown over. In the bent right arm, placed on …
HEAD OF А BYZANTINE ЕMPRESS, EUPHEMIA (WIFE OF JUSTIN I) OR THEODORA (WIFE OF JUSTINIAN I), bronze, about 530., Kulina near Balajnac
The bronze portrait is a part of statue of about full-size. It represents a youngish-looking woman, wearing imperial headdress, with smooth generalized features, little detail, …
PORTRAIT OF A DIARCH, porphyry, about 315., Fortress of Nis
Head of a man which lacks the lower parts of the face. Under the low cylindrical cap (pileus pannonicus) there is short hair modeled in …
JUPITER ON THE THRONE, bronze, end of 1st century, Nis
Sited figure of Jupiter on the throne was found in the Nisava riverbed in 1938 and donated to the Museum. God wears a himation wrapped …