Gold and copper alloy bracelet with lion-head finials

Gold and copper alloy bracelet with lion-head finials

Description:

With a head of a lion on the end.


Diam.: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

499 - 400 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. I, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. nos. 3558-3559, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.3558