Bracelets from the Olbia Treasure

Elements: late 2nd century BCE; Setting: 1st century BCE (Hellenistic)

7.9 cm 5.3 cm

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This outstanding example of jewelry from the 1st-century BCE Greek colonies in the Black Sea region is purported to belong to the famed Olbia treasure, named for the town in present-day Ukraine in which it was discovered at the end of the 19th century. Whether the bracelets,...

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[From a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine (?), discovered 1913]; F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; P. Mavrogordato, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 A]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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