
Late Bronze Age II
Gold spiral
Of plain wire with two turns. Length: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Jewellery
- Motif
- probablyGuilloche and spiral
- Date
- 1600 - 1100 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3072, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.3072, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 3072
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