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Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Editor]
A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 3) — New York, 1903

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Plate XL,

The Collection contains ninety-four specimens of silver bracelet or armlet, most of which
are quite perfect, barring corrosion.

1. Bracelet. Silver. Grey tints. Diameter 27/% inches. Found at Curium.

Surface is corroded, but one end shows that the original decoration was a lion's head. The
other end indicates that the head was made hollow and slipped on.

2. Bracelets, Five corroded together. Silver. Grey. Diameter of bracelets about 2 5/g
inches. Found at Curium

The finding of so many together seem to prove that they were votive offerings.

3. Bracelet. Silver. Dark grey. Diameter 3 inches. Found at Curium.

One of a pair, but spread a little more than its mate. Ends are decorated with ram's
heads.

4. Armlet. Silver. Grey and green. Diameter 2>Yk inches. Found at Curium.

A spiral, containing almost two and a half complete turns. One end is corroded away, and
the other is drawn down to a point.

5. Armlet. Silver. Grey and green. Diameter 3^ inches. Found at Curium.
Made of a large and heavy wire, l/% of an inch in diameter. The ends lap about-21/2

inches.

6. Bracelet. Silver. Grey and green. Diameter 25/£ inches. Found at Curium.
Formed of three wires soldered side by side. The ends are cut square off, and are in close

contact.

7. Armlet. Silver. Light grey. Diameter 4^ inches. Found at Curium.

Very large and heavy. Ends decorated with serpents' heads, which are a little over half an
inch apart.

8. Bracelet. Silver. Grey tints. Diameter 2% inches. Found at Curium.
 
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