The Rare Hellenistic Snake Bracelet with Herakles Knot
WEBDec 19, 2020 · In jewellery, this heroic deed performed by the infant Heracles is represented in artistic and amulet-like magical form in what is known as the Heracles knot, with two serpents elegantly entwined, as shown …
Gold bracelet in the form of a snake | Greek, Ptolemaic | Early ...
WEBTitle: Gold bracelet in the form of a snake. Period: Early Hellenistic. Date: ca. 300–250 BCE. Culture: Greek, Ptolemaic. Medium: Gold. Dimensions: 3 5/16 in. (8.5 cm) Classification: Gold and Silver. Credit Line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1988. Accession Number: 1988.22
bracelet - British Museum
WEBSilver snake-head bracelet. This bracelet consists of a silver rod twisted into nearly six complete turns. Its incised decoration includes a scale-like pattern, an ivy chain and, in the centre, a pair of back-to-back palmettes. It is also carefully inscribed with a name.
bracelet - British Museum
WEBbracelet. Gold bracelet in the form of a serpent: comprising a solid gold rod that has been twisted into a coil that forms the body of the snake. Only the scales of the forepart and tail of the snake have been indicated by chasing, and even then, only on the top surface.
Snake Bracelet (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
WEBSnake Bracelet. Artist/Maker: Unknown. Date: 100 B.C.–. A.D. 100. Medium: Gold, glass. Dimensions: Object: 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.) Place: Egypt (Place Created) Culture: Romano-Egyptian. Object Number: 84.AM.849. Alternate Titles: Two …
Snake bracelet for a child - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBSnake 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.
Snake Bracelet - Unknown — Google Arts & Culture
WEBSpiral bracelets in the form of snakes were very popular in the Hellenistic period. This type of bracelet was worn coiled around the wearer's arm, the continuation of a fashion known earlier...
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
WEBA GREEK GOLD AND GARNET SNAKE ARMBAND. HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C. Formed from a stout strap, flat on the interior, carinated on the exterior, coiled into a spiral, the ends terminating in two coiling naturalistically-modelled snakes, the scales well detailed, the heads finely contoured, the …
Hellenistic snake bracelet - Unknown — Google Arts & Culture
WEBDetails. Title: Hellenistic snake bracelet. Creator: Unknown. Date Created: 3rd century BCE - 2nd century BCE. Location: Greece. Physical Dimensions: h11.5 cm. Provenance: © Schmuckmuseum...
A GREEK GOLD SNAKE BRACELET , HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA …
WEBA GREEK GOLD SNAKE BRACELET. Hellenistic Period, Circa 2nd-1st Century B.C. The solid hoop carinated on the exterior, coiled into a spiral, the ends terminating in an undulating naturalistically-modelled snake, the scales and the ribbed underside well-detailed, the finely-contoured head with recessed eyes.