Gold beads, perhaps from a necklace

Gold beads, perhaps from a necklace

Description:

Beads, spindle, with spherical controls.


Other: 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

599 - 500 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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. IX, 5, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3297, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.3297