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Pair of Electrum Handles from a Kantharos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019

Pair of Electrum Handles from a Kantharos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019
Pair of electrum handles from a kantharos (drinking cup with two high vertical handles)
ca. 1550–1500 B.C.


Object Details

Title: Pair of electrum handles from a kantharos (drinking cup with two high vertical handles)

Period: Late Helladic I

Date: ca. 1550–1500 B.C.

Culture: Helladic, Mycenaean

Medium: Electrum

Dimensions: length of a. 3 1/4in. (8.2cm)
length of b. 3 7/16in. (8.8cm)

Classification: Gold and Silver

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907

Accession Number: 07.286.128a, b


Fragments of the vase to which the handles are attached indicate its shape and its material, silver.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248004

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