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 |