plaque;
costume-fitting(?)
- Museum number
- 1887,0801.10
- Description
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Fragment of a silver plaque decorated with a seated sphinx, perhaps from a girdle (?).
- Production date
- 600BC-480BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.90 centimetres
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Weight: 0.27 grammes
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Width: 1.27 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See P. Herrmann, Das Gräberfeld von Marion auf Cypern (Berlin, 1888) for an account of the excavations conducted at Marion in 1886-1887 by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter on behalf of private speculators. Many of the contents of the 441 tombs opened during this campaign were sold in Paris by Fröhner in 1887, though the finds in the BM seem to have been bought directly from Charles Christian, one of the archaeological syndicate. The published catalogue details only a fraction of the overall finds, which amounted to several thousand items in total.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1887,0801.10