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CIVILIZATION | Greek |
PERIOD | Hellenistic |
DATE | circa 3rd Century B.C. |
MATERIAL | Gold |
MOUNTED | No |
Biconical bead decorated with linked palmettes and loops in spiral-beaded wire, the collars and equator are decorated with plain and beaded wires. Parallels found in Kyme. Weight 2.4g
Formerly in the Dr. & Mrs. Goddard DuBois Collection, excavated in Egypt between 1900-1907. The DuBois collection was loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1920s-1940s, then to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where it was exhibited for another 20 years until its final exhibition at the San Diego Museum. Several works from their collection remain at the Met Museum, the MFA, and the Museum of Man.
Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920s-1940s, no. SL 803.108; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1945s-1960s; Museum of Man, 1968, no. MG154.
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Provenance documentation will be transferred to buyer.
cf. Ogden, J.; Greek Gold, Jewelry of the Classical World, Met Museum, p. 102-103, no. 55, for a near identical bead.
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CATEGORY | Greek |
PERIOD | Hellenistic |
DATE | circa 3rd Century B.C. |
MATERIAL | Gold |
MOUNTED | No |