Series·Swedish Cyprus Expedition

Objects: jewellery, gold and silver

369 object photographs

Sites: Arsos, Limassol, Tamassos

This series holds 369 photographs of jewellery and objects of precious material whose museum record names no find-place: silver (93), gold rings, pins and pendants (90), gold, groups captioned "Jewellery etc.", and smaller groups of bone and faience.

A large part shows pieces in the Cesnola Collection in New York. Seventy-one captions give the object's number in Myres's Handbook of the Cesnola Collection (H.C.C.), and others cite plates of the Cesnola Atlas; H.C.C. 3393, for example, is a gold necklace Myres lists on p. 391. Fifty-nine captions carry the note "Vol. IV:2", the expedition's volume on the Cypro-Geometric to Cypro-Classical periods.

Jewellery from the expedition's own excavations, with find numbers, is in the Vouni metal and jewellery series and among the gold and silver of the Enkomi tombs. The Handbook can be read in the Archive.

Sources

Myres, J. L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York, p. 391.
Gjerstad, E. 1948. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, vol. IV, part 2: The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical Periods. Stockholm.

Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)

All series of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition