Gold-plated Bronze Hair Ornament

Gold-plated Bronze Hair Ornament

Description:

One of a pair of gold-plated bronze spirals probably used as a hair ornament, terminating in horned griffin heads, each attached by a collar decorated with a rosette on the front; both collars and rosettes partly inlaid with enamel.


Dimensions: Height: 3.50 centimetres approx ; Weight: 200 grains


Object Type: hair-ornament


Techniques: gold-plated; inlaid

Period:

Classical

Date:

475 - 400 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.453