Pediment-shaped gold diadem (detail)
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, in the Thracian Chersonesos. The gold diadem is richly worked in repoussé 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 muse playing a lyre also appears just above the crescent form on each of the boat-shaped earrings. The seed-like pendants of the earrings are identical to those on the elaborate necklace.
Amazing the detail on such a small scale, from the bead and egg and dart borders, to the little birds beneath the central characters.
Greek, ca. 330-300 BCE.
Met Museum, New York (06.1217.1)
Pediment-shaped gold diadem (detail)
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, in the Thracian Chersonesos. The gold diadem is richly worked in repoussé 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 muse playing a lyre also appears just above the crescent form on each of the boat-shaped earrings. The seed-like pendants of the earrings are identical to those on the elaborate necklace.
Amazing the detail on such a small scale, from the bead and egg and dart borders, to the little birds beneath the central characters.
Greek, ca. 330-300 BCE.
Met Museum, New York (06.1217.1)