boss
- Museum number
- 1887,0801.2
- Description
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Silver boss: hollow convex disc with a rim.
- Production date
- 600 BC-475 BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.80 centimetres
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Weight: 480 grains
- Curator's comments
- Also registered with this object was a silver coin of Idalion dating 'slightly before 500 B.C.' according to the register (1887,8- 1.3) and a silver boss from a shield (1887,8-1.3). The comments in the register state that the tomb also contained 'gold cups, with acorns repoussé; electrum ring with engraving of boat of the sun; large bronze vessel; many black figure vases; no red figd. vases...and additional items'. Photographs of some of these are included in Misc. Photographs II in the G&R archive.
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
- 1887,0801.2
