Gold leaf frontlet (band for forehead)
Description: | Addorsed palmettes Sheet gold ornaments made for the grave are decorated in low relief. The motifs were cut into a concave mold, and the sheet metal was pressed into the forms. The sheet was then cut to the desired shape. The vegetal decoration here is characteristic especially of East Greek art of the seventh century B.C. Other: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm) |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 699 - 500 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | From Cyprus |
References: | Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3295, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.3295 |