Gold roundel

Gold roundel

Description:

Made of hammered sheet metal, these gold roundels would have adorned a cloth or garment, probably a funerary shroud. Similar examples have been found in the Royal Shaft Graves at Mycenae and in Mycenaean tombs on the island of Rhodes.


Diam.: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1600 - 1050 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3018, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 158, 290, pl. 130c, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Accession Number:

74.51.3018