Multi-spiral Dacian bracelet

Details

Place of discovery: Sarmizegetusa Regia

Inventory number: 337756

Dating: 1st century BC

Material: gold

Dimensions: Weight=933.50 g, Diameter=115 mm, Height=150 mm

Description: Gold bracelet with 6.5 spirals. The two ends depict a stylized stylized animal protomy with an elongated, straight cut snout. The middle part of the head and mane is marked by incised oblique lines, the decoration being identical on the two resulting parts. The eyes and eyebrows are drawn with three curved lines. The length of the heads is 2-2,1 cm. The head is followed by a rectangular plate with raised edges decorated with two rows of small incised lines arranged obliquely in a V-shape, separated by a median line. The central part of the plate is decorated with a dotted median line from which 13 or 14 parallel V-shaped oblique lines, respectively, start, the outer borders of which are dotted and arranged on an incised line parallel to the median line and the raised edges. The length of the two rectangular plates is 3,4-3,62 cm. Following each rectangular plate are 7 triangular palmettes, each 14.2 cm long, with arched sides, made with two stanzas - a first stanza for the 6 larger palmettes and a second stanza for the smaller one. The decoration is foliate. The edges of the palmettes are raised and decorated with small obliquely oblique lines incised into the edges.