Heavy, rigid gold bracelets like these are opened by the pins beside the medallions at their centers. The grapevines decorating these bracelets were made by attaching small gold sheets worked as leaves and triangular groups of grapes to thick gold wires.
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Dimensions:Overall: 2 1/2 x 1 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (6.4 x 3.5 x 6 cm) Wt: 72g strap: 7/8 x 5 7/16 in. (2.2 x 13.8 cm)
Classification:Metalwork-Gold
Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number:17.190.148
Cyprus Treasure, found at Karavas, Cyprus, 1902; [ Amedeo Canessa, Paris (sold 1906)]; J. Pierpont Morgan (American), London and New York (1906–1913)
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Geroulanou, Emilia. Diatrita: Gold Pierced-Work Jewelery from the 3rd to the 7th Century. Athens: Benaki Museum, 1999. p. 62, fig. 88.
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