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Etruscan Bronze Shield Boss with a Griffin and Sphinx Frieze in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2018

Etruscan Bronze Shield Boss with a Griffin and Sphinx Frieze in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2018
Bronze shield boss with griffin and sphinx frieze

Period:Archaic

Date:ca. 650 B.C.

Culture:Etruscan

Medium:Bronze

Dimensions:diameter 4 5/16in. (11cm)

Classification:Bronzes

Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1903

Accession Number:03.25

In repoussé, a procession of winged monsters.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247071

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