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Ptolemaic Period
Snake bracelets are known in the eastern Mediterranean and Greece from the 8th-7th centuries BC. They only appear in Egypt with the Hellenistic Period, and then continue to be found in the Roman Period.
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Title: Snake bracelet for a child
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Date: 332–30 B.C. or later
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: L. 4.5 × W. 3.5 cm (1 3/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1924
Object Number: 24.2.14
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