Freer Purchases Gold Treasure Pieces
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PrintWalter Dennison, professor of Latin at the University of Michigan, advises Charles Lang Freer via telegram to buy the "Gold Treasure" cache from Maurice Nahman, art dealer in Cairo, Egypt. Freer buys nine pieces from the cache. He does not see his purchases, which include medallions, a statuette, bracelets, and a pair of earrings, until he returns to Detroit, Michigan, in December 1909. Later scholarship suggests that the objects of the "Gold Treasure" cache were made in Constantinople in the 6th or 7th century.
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1909
Byzantine Empire