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Gold cross-strap diadem with a Herakles knot set with five garnets

ca. 300–250 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158
Both the diadem and the adjacent ring were found together in a tomb of the island of Ithaka.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Gold cross-strap diadem with a Herakles knot set with five garnets
  • Period: Hellenistic
  • Date: ca. 300–250 BCE
  • Culture: Greek
  • Medium: Gold, garnet
  • Dimensions: width as mounted 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm)
    total H. as mounted 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
    length of straps 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)
    H. of Herakles knot 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
  • Classification: Gold and Silver
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1958
  • Object Number: 58.11.5
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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