Gold eye-shaped pendant with three tassels

Gold eye-shaped pendant with three tassels

Description:

Alhough this object may have been made in Cyprus, the type probably originated in Egypt and the Levant. The inlay would have consisted of a semiprecious stone or glass paste.


Other: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

599 - 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. III, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3322, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.3322