Bracelet

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Artist
Name	Unknown
Basic Info
Period	Archaic period to Hellenistic
Created in	Ancient & Byzantine World
Century	6th-4th century BCE
Culture	Greek
Dimensions	5.1 x 0.9 x 0.4 cm (2 x 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Harvard Museum
Department	Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Division	Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact	am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Context

This circular-sectioned bracelet is bent into one and a half coils. The rod does not taper, and there does not appear to be any decoration. This type of coiled rod bracelet might be better described as a weight (1).
 
NOTES:
 
1. Compare A. M. Bietti Sestieri and E. Macnamara, Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500-720 BC) in the British Museum (London, 2007) 19 and 195, “bracelet” type 5, nos. 645-46. 
 
Lisa M. Anderson

TechnicalDetails

Chemical Composition

Technical Observations

The patina is mostly green with some grayish-tan accretions. The object is heavily mineralized and has flaked in several areas, exposing green corrosion products over a very diminished metallic core. One end is damaged due to mineralization. 
 
The bracelet was shaped from a single wire that was hammered into a coil of more or less even thickness all around. It is slightly ovoid in section, probably due to the hammering. 
 
Francesca G. Bewer (submitted 2012)

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Rev. Edward H. Hall '55