{"arkId":"cl010453982","url":"https:\/\/collections.louvre.fr\/ark:\/53355\/cl010453982","modified ":"2026-05-02","title":"Collier byzantin du tr\u00e9sor de Pantalica","titleComplement":"","denominationTitle":[{"type":"Titre","value":"Collier byzantin du tr\u00e9sor de Pantalica"}],"displayDateCreated":"Epoque \/ p\u00e9riode : Byzance\r\n\r\nDate de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication : 500 - 700","currentLocation":"Richelieu, [OArt] Salle 501 - Charlemagne, Vitrine 7 Barberini","room":"Salle 501, Aile Aile Richelieu, Niveau 1","isMuseesNationauxRecuperation":false,"dateCreated":[{"startYear":500,"endYear":700,"imprecision":"","text":"VIe-VIIe si\u00e8cle","type":"Date de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication","doubt":""}],"creator":[{"label":"Anonyme","attributionLevel":"Attribution actuelle","linkType":"","creatorRole":"","authenticationType":"","doubt":"","attributedBy":"","attributedYear":"","wikidata":"Q4233718"}],"objectNumber":[{"value":"RFML.OA.2019.45.1","type":"Num\u00e9ro principal"}],"collection":"D\u00e9partement des Arts de Byzance et des chr\u00e9tient\u00e9s en Orient","printsDrawingsEntity":"","printsDrawingsCollection":"","objectType":"","originalObject":"","printState":"","description":"Le collier complet, se distingue par un luxueux d\u00e9cor de saphirs et de perles altern\u00e9s, ainsi que par ses deux fermoirs en or qui compl\u00e8tent son d\u00e9cor, ex\u00e9cut\u00e9s en opus interrasile \u00e0 motif floral stylis\u00e9 cruciforme. L\u0027opus interrasile, qui consiste \u00e0 obtenir un d\u00e9cor par \u00e9videment \u00e0 l\u0027emporte-pi\u00e8ce sur une plaque de m\u00e9tal, \u00e9tait particuli\u00e8rement pris\u00e9 \u00e0 la fin de l\u0027empire romain et durant les premi\u00e8rs si\u00e8cles byzantins. Le collier fut d\u00e9couvert accidentellement en 1903 avec d\u0027autres bijoux sur le site de la n\u00e9cropole de Pantalica, \u00e0 Sortino, dans l\u0027arri\u00e8re-pays de Syracuse (Sicile). Le tr\u00e9sor, publi\u00e9 d\u00e8s 1910 par Paolo Orsi, alors directeur du mus\u00e9e de Syracuse, comportait au moins quatre bagues, une paire de boucles d\u0027oreilles, une petite bulle orn\u00e9e d\u0027une croix et un bracelet, actuellement au Mus\u00e9e arch\u00e9ologique de Syracuse, ainsi que cinq colliers aujourd\u0027hui dispers\u00e9s dont celui du Louvre. Des monnaies d\u0027or des r\u00e8gnes de Constance II (641-668) ou de Constantin IV (668-685) mensionn\u00e9es par Orsi, permettent de situer l\u0027enfouissement probable du tr\u00e9sor au moment de la conqu\u00eate arabe de 670 et du pillage de Syracuse et de sa r\u00e9gion ou peu apr\u00e8s, et conforte une datation du VIe au VIIe si\u00e8cle.","inscriptions":"","namesAndTitles":"","onomastics":"","dimension":[{"type":"Longueur","value":"52","displayDimension":"52 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":1,"note":""},{"type":"Longueur","value":"2","displayDimension":"2 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":2,"note":""}],"shape":"","materialsAndTechniques":"Mat\u00e9riau\/Technique : or, saphir, perles, opus interrasile\r\nMat\u00e9riau : or\r\nMat\u00e9riau : saphir","placeOfCreation":"","dateOfDiscovery":"","placeOfDiscovery":"Europe du sud = sud de l\u0027Europe (D\u00e9couvert lors de travaux agricoles effectu\u00e9s sur le site de Pantalica. Le tr\u00e9sor a \u00e9t\u00e9 trouv\u00e9 sous une dalle de pierre \u00e0 l\u0027int\u00e9rieur d\u0027un r\u00e9cipient de bronze \u00e0 l\u0027occasion des travaux agricoles sur le site de la n\u00e9cropole de Pantalica, \u00e0 Sortino, dans l\u0027arri\u00e8re-pays de Syracuse.)","provenance":"","historicalContext":[],"objectHistory":"Le collier fut d\u00e9couvert en octobre 1903 avec au moins treize autres pi\u00e8ces de bijouterie et un lot de monnaies d\u0027or sur le site de de la n\u00e9cropole de Pantalica, \u00e0 Sortino. Le site, bien connu pour sa n\u00e9cropole antique, fut aussi occup\u00e9 au d\u00e9but de l\u0027\u00e9poque byzantine, avant les invasions arabes, par un village troglodyte o\u00f9 les vestiges de deux \u00e9glises ont pu \u00eatre identifi\u00e9s d\u00e8s les ann\u00e9es 1880. Le tr\u00e9sor fut disperc\u00e9 aussit\u00f4t sa d\u00e9couverte.\r\nPropri\u00e9taire pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent : Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, OArt, Paris\r\nD\u00e9positaire pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent : Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, OArt, Paris","jabachInventory":"","napoleonInventory":"","previousOwner":[{"value":"M. Pierpont-Morgan, John Sr","note":" (collection personnelle de John Pierpont Morgan, puis ses descendants qui le vendent \u00e0 New York en 1947 \u00e0 un collectionnaire am\u00e9ricain.)","role":", Collectionneur"},{"value":"Inconnu","note":" (achat par un collectionneur am\u00e9ricain chez Parke Bernet, New York (lot 69))","role":", Collectionneur"},{"value":"Inconnu","note":" (collection priv\u00e9e \u00e0 Londres)","role":", Collectionneur"},{"value":"Erik Bijzet Sculpture and Works of Art","note":"","role":", Antiquaire \/ Marchand d\u0027art ; Vendeur"}],"acquisitionDetails":[{"mode":"achat","doubt":"","dates":[{"type":"date de commission des acquisitions","value":"09\/10\/2019","startYear":2019,"endYear":2019},{"type":"date du conseil artistique des mus\u00e9es nationaux","value":"13\/11\/2019","startYear":2019,"endYear":2019},{"type":"date de d\u00e9cision","value":"20\/11\/2019","startYear":2019,"endYear":2019},{"type":"date de l\u0027inscription sur l\u0027inventaire","value":"20\/11\/2019","startYear":2019,"endYear":2019},{"type":"date d\u0027affectation","value":"20\/11\/2019","startYear":2019,"endYear":2019}]}],"ownedBy":"Etat","heldBy":"Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, D\u00e9partement des Arts de Byzance et des chr\u00e9tient\u00e9s en Orient","longTermLoanTo":"Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, D\u00e9partement des Arts de Byzance et des chr\u00e9tient\u00e9s en Orient","index":{"Mode d\u0027acquisition":[{"value":"achat"}],"period":[{"value":"Byzance"}],"place":[{"value":"Europe du sud = sud de l\u0027Europe"}],"objectType":[{"value":"collier"}]},"bibliography":[{"bibliographyRef":"Marazzi, Federico (dir.), Bizantini. Luoghi, simboli e comunit\u00e0 di un impero millenario, cat. exp. 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