Geometric bronze rattling (?): bird perching on an open-work sphere

Classification

rattling?; amulet

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 10 cm

Date

turn of the 8th and 7th centuries B.C.

Period

Late Geometric Period (760–700); Orientalising Period (700–600)

Material

bronze

Iconography

bird

Production place

Hellas

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum ; Ráth, György Collection

Inventory

71.1.A

ID

Hyp-1403

References

Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 20; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 22; Szabó, M., in BullMusHong 38 (1972)