7th-2nd century BCE
This thin rectangular-sectioned bar is bent into a circle, with the ends overlapping. It may have been a bracelet or is perhaps simply a bent scrap.
4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Silver colored metal
19th centuryUnidentified cultureGold
EgyptianGold
2nd century BCEGreekCopper alloy
7th-8th centuryAvarCopper alloy
7th-8th centuryAvarGold
GreekBronze
9th-7th century BCEIranianElectroype of gold original; intaglio
19th-20th centuryMycenaeanBronze
10th-8th century BCEIranianBronze
11th-7th century BCEIranianCopper alloy
3rd-7th centuryRomanBronze
9th-7th century BCEIranian