Archaic II

Electrotype copy of a gold bracelet

The original bracelets, stolen from the Metropolitan Museum in 1887, bore inscriptions indicating that they belonged to a certain Eteander, king of Paphos. These exact copies were made by Tiffany & Co., drawing on records made by the Museum before the theft. Diam. of the shank: 9.66 mm (Diam. of the brass rod): 11.04 mm Weight: 495 g (1 lb. 1.6 oz) Diameter of bracelet: 4 inches (10.2 cm)

Date

599 - 400 BC

Accession No.

74.51.3552

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

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. I, 1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3552, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 375, pp. 236-7, 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. 293, pp. 251, 463-64, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Merrillees, Robert S. 2010. "Another Cesnola Puzzle: A pair of reproduction bracelets from Kourion in the Musée-château." Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, 40: pp. 101-23.Satraki, Anna. 2013. "The Iconography of Basileis in Archaic and Classical Cyprus: Manifestations of Royal Power in the Visual Record." Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research, 370: p. 132, n. 28.Karnava, Artemis and Massimo Perna. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 1, 1. no. 122, p. 50, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.