One of a Pair of Gold Earrings, 550?650, Avar, Gold, 2 3/16 ? 7/8 ? 13/16 in., 0 Troy Ounces (5.6 ? 2.2 ? 2.1 cm, 16g), Metalwork-Gold, In the 500s and early 600s, when the Avars were regularly receiving enormous payments from the Byzantine Empire, v