Gold roundel
Unknown Artist
Made of hammered sheet metal, these gold roundels would have adorned a cloth or garment, probably a funerary shroud. Similar examples have been found in the Royal Shaft Graves at Mycenae and in Mycenaean tombs on the island of Rhodes.
Credit: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Ca. 1600–1050 B.C.
Gold
3.7 x 3.7 cm
74.51.3023
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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