Gold strap necklace with seed-like pendants, part of the Madytos Jewelry.
This group of jewelry is said to have come from a tomb at Madytos on the European side of the Hellespont. The gold diadem is richly worked in repousse with an elaborate floral pattern. Dionysos, the god of wine, and his wife, Ariadne, sit in the center; muses playing musical instruments perch among the vines and along the sides. The tiny figure of a must playing a lyre also appears just above the crescent form on each of the boat-shaped earrings. The seedlike pendants of the earrings are identical to those on the elaborate necklace.
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Title:Gold strap necklace with seedlike pendants
Period:Hellenistic
Date:ca. 330–300 BCE
Culture:Greek
Medium:Gold
Dimensions:H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); length 12 3/4 in. (32.3 cm); length of terminals 13/16 in. (2 cm)
Classification:Gold and Silver
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1906
Object Number:06.1217.13
Said to be from Madytos in the Thracian Chersonesos
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 330–31, fig. 234, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 289, pl. 129b, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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von Bothmer, Dietrich and Joan R. Mertens. 1982. The Search for Alexander: Supplement to the Catalogue. no. S23, pp. 6–7, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Williams, Dyfri and Jack Ogden. 1994. Greek Gold: Jewelry of the Classical World. no. 64, pp. 112–13, fig. 37, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Pandermalis, Dimitrios. 2004. Alexander the Great: Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism no. 19, p. 130, New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), Inc.
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Stone, Elizabeth. 2007. "An Early Image of Maitreya as a Brahman Ascetic?." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 42: p. 67, fig. 18.
Brøns, Cecilie. 2017. Gods and Garments : Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries B.C.. pp. 113–14, fig. 21, Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Holcomb, Melanie. 2018. Jewelry : The Body Transformed pp. 106, 109, pl. 86, New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ogden, Jack. 2024. Jewelry Technology in the Ancient and Medieval World. p. 203, fig. 12.31, Harpswell, ME: Brynmorgen Press.
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