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Feb 26, 2009

Spiral Armilla

c. 1500 BC

Central Europe, Bronze Age

Bronze, wrought

Overall: 16.5 x 12.1 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.4

Location

106A Migration Period & Coptic

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This armilla or arm ornament has a ridge along the spine, ending in a large spiral at one end.

Provenance

Dr. Egger, Vienna, sold at Sotheby's 1891; Pitt River; (Michael Ward, New York).

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 4 archive.org

Kozloff, Arielle P. "Ancient East-European Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (1993): 122-26. Reproduced: p. 123; Mentioned: p. 122-26 www.jstor.org

Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned; P. 86; reproduced: P. 13, no. 3

Exhibition history

MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 3, p. 115, color repr. p. 13.

The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

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