Late Bronze Age II

Gold roundel with stamped designs

Made of hammered sheet metal, these gold roundels would have adorned a cloth or garment, probably a funerary shroud. Similar examples have been found in the Royal Shaft Graves at Mycenae and in Mycenaean tombs on the island of Rhodes. Diam.: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)

Date

1600 - 1050 BC

Accession No.

74.51.3022

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3022, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 158, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 112, p. 70, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 273, pp. 235, 460, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.