Silver Calves' Head Bracelet

Silver Calves' Head Bracelet

Description:

Small silver bracelet or armlet with overlapping ends terminating in calves' heads; plain hoops with circular section with the animal heads and their ears lying back along the hoop; traces of gilding between the ears; indications of V-shape hatching behind on of the heads.


Dimensions: Diameter: 4.50 centimetres; Weight: 1167 grains pair


Object Type: bracelet; armlet


Techniques: gilded; beaten; incised

Period:

Classical

Date:

500 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1896,0201.343