Gold pendant in the form of a lion's head - image 1

Classical

Gold pendant in the form of a lion's head

The lion's-head is finely modeled in two halves, left and right, with a flat gold sheet closing off the neck aperture. Diam.: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm)

Date

450 - 400 BC

Accession No.

74.51.3329

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

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. IV, 32, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.