
Late Bronze Age II
Gold roundel of bulbous form
Highly convex, without ornament. Diam.: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Jewellery
- Decoration
- Undecorated
- Date
- 1600 - 1050 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. V, 2, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3029, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 158, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.3029, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 3029
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