Bracelet (200–1 BCE): Art, History and Details
Bracelet at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 200–1 BCE, silver. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Bracelet (200–1 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This bracelet is part of a set of jewelry including a bracelet and a necklace of similar design (1986.181). Torques in antiquity were often paired with matching bracelets, though our set only has one. While in the Thracian and Scythian cultures these torque sets represented elite status, in Greek culture they came to represent non-Greek “barbarians” and were used as stereotypical symbols of non-Greeks.
Object facts
- Title: Bracelet
- Date: 200–1 BCE
- Culture: Greece, late Hellenistic period
- Type: Jewelry
- Technique: silver
- Dimensions: Diameter: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.)
- Collection: GR - Greek
- Department: Greek and Roman Art
- Accession number: 1986.182
A detail from the museum
This silver bracelet is made from a single piece of metal.
Collection credit
Anonymous Gift
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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