Electrotype copy of a gold bracelet
Description: | The original bracelets, stolen from the Metropolitan Museum in 1887, bore inscriptions indicating that they belonged to a certain Eteander, king of Paphos. These exact copies were made by Tiffany & Co., drawing on records made by the Museum before the theft. Diam. of the shank: 9.82 mm (Diam. of the brass rod): 11.37 mm Weight: 1 lb. 1.8 oz (505 g) Diameter of the bracelet: 4 1/8 in. ( 10.5 cm) |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 599 - 400 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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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, 1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3553, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 375, pp. 236-7, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 293, pp. 251, 463-64, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Merrillees, Robert S. 2010. "Another Cesnola Puzzle: A pair of reproduction bracelets from Kourion in the Musée-château." Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, 40: pp. 101-23.Karnava, Artemis and Massimo Perna. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 1, 1. no. 121, p. 50, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.3553 |