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girdle(?)

Object Type
Museum number: 1887,0801.13
Description: Several fragments of a silver girdle (?).
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600BC-480BC (circa)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Marion-Arsinoe, Necropolis II, Tomb CCV
Materials
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.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1887
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1887,0801.13