Gold pendant in the form of a lion's head

Gold pendant in the form of a lion's head

Description:

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)

Period:

Classical

Date:

450 - 400 BC

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.

Accession Number:

74.51.3329