The Madytos Jewelry: pediment-shaped diadem
Gold.Ca. 330—300 BCE.
L. 36.8, H. max. 5.9 cm; weight 11.03 g. Inv. No. 06.1217.1.New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Madytos Jewelry: pediment-shaped diadem.
Gold.
Ca. 330—300 BCE.
L. 36.8, H. max. 5.9 cm; weight 11.03 g.
Ca. 330—300 BCE.
L. 36.8, H. max. 5.9 cm; weight 11.03 g.
Inv. No. 06.1217.1.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Origin:
Said to be from Madytos in the Thracian Chersonesos.
Rogers Fund, 1906.
Rogers Fund, 1906.
Description:
Pediment-shaped gold diadem, part of the Madytos Jewelry.
This group of jewelry is said to have come from a tomb at Madytos on the European side of the Hellespont. The gold diadem is richly worked in repousse with an elaborate floral pattern. Dionysos, the god of wine, and his wife, Ariadne, sit in the center; muses playing musical instruments perch among the vines and along the sides. The tiny figure of a must playing a lyre also appears just above the crescent form on each of the boat-shaped earrings. The seedlike pendants of the earrings are identical to those on the elaborate necklace.
Literature:
Robinson, Edward. 1906. “Greek Jewelry”. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 (9): pp. 118—120.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 151, fig. 96, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 328—329, fig. 231, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Alexander, Christine. 1928. Jewelry: The Art of the Goldsmith in Classical Times as Illustrated in the Museum Collection. p. 46, fig. 97, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 330—331, fig. 234, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1936 [1934]. A Guide to the Collections, Part 1: Ancient and Oriental Art, 2nd edn. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Grancsay, Stephen V. 1940. “The Art of the Jeweler: A Special Exhibition”. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35 (11): p. 211.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 156, 289, pl. 129d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki: Katalog vystavki. no. 68, Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik.
von Bothmer, Dietrich and Joan R. Mertens. 1982. The Search for Alexander: Supplement to the Catalogue. no. S11, p. 6, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1986. Vol. 3: Atherion-Eros. “Dionysos”, p. 485, no. 746, pl. 386, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Bordenache Battaglia, Gabrielle. 1991. “Ori da una piccola tomba presso Bolsena (scavi 1861) ‘restauro’ e rielaborazioni neoclassiche Castellani”. Bollettino d’ Arte, 68—69: p. 16, pl. II, fig. a-b.
Williams, Dyfri and Jack Ogden. 1994. Greek Gold: Jewelry of the Classical World. no. 62, pp. 108—109, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Castriota, David. 1995. The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Early Roman Imperial Art. pp. 52, 75—76, 164, fig. 69, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Treister, Michail Ju. 1999. “The Workshop of the Gorytos and Scabbard Overlays”. Scythian Gold. Treasures from Ancient Ukraine, Dr. Ellen D. Reeder, ed. pp. 77, 81 n. 42, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Pandermalis, Dimitrios. 2004. Alexander the Great: Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism no. 3, p. 122, New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), Inc.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. no. 168, pp. 149, 436, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Brøns, Cecilie. 2017. Gods and Garments: Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries B. C. pp. 113—114, fig. 21, Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Holcomb, Melanie. 2018. Jewelry: The Body Transformed pp. 106, 109, pl. 86, New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 151, fig. 96, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 328—
Alexander, Christine. 1928. Jewelry: The Art of the Goldsmith in Classical Times as Illustrated in the Museum Collection. p. 46, fig. 97, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 330—
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1936 [1934]. A Guide to the Collections, Part 1: Ancient and Oriental Art, 2nd edn. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Grancsay, Stephen V. 1940. “The Art of the Jeweler: A Special Exhibition”. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35 (11): p. 211.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 156, 289, pl. 129d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki: Katalog vystavki. no. 68, Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik.
von Bothmer, Dietrich and Joan R. Mertens. 1982. The Search for Alexander: Supplement to the Catalogue. no. S11, p. 6, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1986. Vol. 3: Atherion-Eros. “Dionysos”, p. 485, no. 746, pl. 386, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Bordenache Battaglia, Gabrielle. 1991. “Ori da una piccola tomba presso Bolsena (scavi 1861) ‘restauro’ e rielaborazioni neoclassiche Castellani”. Bollettino d’ Arte, 68—
Williams, Dyfri and Jack Ogden. 1994. Greek Gold: Jewelry of the Classical World. no. 62, pp. 108—
Castriota, David. 1995. The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Early Roman Imperial Art. pp. 52, 75—
Treister, Michail Ju. 1999. “The Workshop of the Gorytos and Scabbard Overlays”. Scythian Gold. Treasures from Ancient Ukraine, Dr. Ellen D. Reeder, ed. pp. 77, 81 n. 42, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Pandermalis, Dimitrios. 2004. Alexander the Great: Treasures from an Epic Era of Hellenism no. 3, p. 122, New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), Inc.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. no. 168, pp. 149, 436, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Brøns, Cecilie. 2017. Gods and Garments: Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries B. C. pp. 113—
Holcomb, Melanie. 2018. Jewelry: The Body Transformed pp. 106, 109, pl. 86, New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Credits:
(cc) 2021. Photo, text: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0 1.0).
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