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Place of OriginGreece, perhaps from Egypt

Date330-200 BCE

Dimensions17 1/2 × 2 11/16 × 5/16 in. (44.5 × 6.8 × 0.8 cm)

MediumGold with Egyptian faience beads

ClassificationJewelry

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1971.132

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

Collections

Decorative Arts

Published References"Recent accessions...;" Art Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, 1972, p. 435, repr. p. 444.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 81, no. 1249, repr. p. 103.

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek gold jewelry," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 17, no. 1, 1974, pp. 3-6, repr. fig. 1, p. 4.

Exhibition HistoryChicago, Art Institute, The Search for Alexander, 1981, no. S-14, repr.

New Orleans Museum of Art, The Search for Alexander, supplement, 1982, no. S-2.

St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Infinite riches; jewelry through the ages, 1989, no. 26, p. 29, repr.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Marshall, F.H., Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1911, pl. XXV, no. 1947, p. 213, no. 1947.

cf. Higgens, R.A., Greek and Roman Jewelry, London, Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1961, pl. 49, p. 168.

cf. Hoffmann, Herbert and Patricia F. Davidson, Greek Gold, The Brooklyn Museum, 1965, pp. 113-146.

cf. Hoffmann, Herbert, Collecting Greek Antiquities, New York, Clarson N. Potter, Inc., 1971, p. 191, p. 193, fig. 171.

cf. Michel, Charles, Recueil d'inscriptions greques, Paris, 1900, pp. 681-188, no. 833, Délos, Inventaires des trésors des temples, 279 B.C., lines 23-25.

Label TextStrap necklaces with “amphora” shaped pendants became very fashionable in the Greek world and were worn across the chest, pinned at each shoulder over a garment rather than worn around a woman’s neck. Similar necklaces have been found at sites around the Aegean Sea. The extensive use of faience beads, common in Egypt for centuries before, suggests that the piece was made in Egypt, as trade was busy between Egypt and Greece at this time.