Bronze bracelet, Persia, 250 BC-224 AD
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This extensible bracelet was made of two intertwined strands of bronze. It came from Persia, where Parthians reigned from 250 BC to 224 AD. Seibert (1974:82) documents a similar type of bracelet found at Dura Europos as one of a “precious few examples of jewelry… which survived from the Parthian times.” Also seen in item #277 of this collection, this extensible design is so brilliant that it is still copied today. It offers both the advantages of a open “C” bracelet (by providing some “give” when sliding it on the arm), and the advantages of a closed bracelet (won’t catch on anything, won’t dig into the wrist, and remains beautiful all around), by capturing the extremities and maintaining a roughly constant thickness all around. Bibliography (for this item)American Research Center in Egypt,1979 The Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art: Catalogue. American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt. (159) Seibert, Ilse 1974 La femme dans l’orient ancien. Editions Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. (82) |
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