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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.2224
Title
Bracelet
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
bracelet
Date
6th-4th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World
Period
Archaic period to Hellenistic
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193806

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Hammered
Dimensions
5.1 x 0.9 x 0.4 cm (2 x 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Technical Details

Chemical Composition: XRF data from Artax 1
Alloy: Bronze
Alloying Elements: copper, tin
Other Elements: lead, iron, silver, antimony, arsenic
K. Eremin, January 2014

Technical Observations: The patina is mostly green with some grayish-tan accretions. The object is heavily mineralized and has flaked in several areas, exposing green corrosion products over a very diminished metallic core. One end is damaged due to mineralization.

The bracelet was shaped from a single wire that was hammered into a coil of more or less even thickness all around. It is slightly ovoid in section, probably due to the hammering.


Francesca G. Bewer (submitted 2012)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Rev. Edward H. Hall '55
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.216.2224
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums
This circular-sectioned bracelet is bent into one and a half coils. The rod does not taper, and there does not appear to be any decoration. This type of coiled rod bracelet might be better described as a weight (1).

NOTES:

1. Compare A. M. Bietti Sestieri and E. Macnamara, Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500-720 BC) in the British Museum (London, 2007) 19 and 195, “bracelet” type 5, nos. 645-46.


Lisa M. Anderson

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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