Gold eye-shaped pendant with three tassels - image 1

Archaic II

Gold eye-shaped pendant with three tassels

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)

Date

599 - 400 BC

Accession No.

74.51.3322

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.