Part of a bronze bit - image 1

Archaic II

Part of a bronze bit

Four links and a bar, with bronze wire coiled around it and terminating at each end in a ring. length 5 1/16in. (12.8cm)

Date

600 - 480 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5386

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4773, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1601, p. 428, New York: Gilliss Press.