Classical

Gold pendant ring with carnelian scaraboid

Pendant ring with sard scaraboid finely modeled, Horus hawk with symbols of Osiris; uraeus-snake in front; Egyptian style. 3/8 × 13/16 × 5/8 in. (1 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm) Diameter: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)

Classification

Object type: Jewellery
Materials: MetalGold, StoneSemi-precious stone
Period: Iron AgeCypro-Classical
Date: 499 - 300 BC

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Accession No.

74.51.4164

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

References

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. pl. xxxvi, 1, London: John Murray.Perrot, Georges and Charles Chipiez. 1885. Histoire de l'Art dans l'Antiquité. t. 3, Phénicie, Cypre. fig. 440, Paris: Hachette.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. XXV, 14, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4164, p. 415, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Culican, William. 1973. "Phoenician Jewelry in New York and Copenhagen." Berytus, 22: p. 41.

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