Cleveland Museum of Art

Bracelet

Date

200–1 BCE

Medium

silver

Culture

Greece, late Hellenistic period

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This bracelet is part of a set of jewelry including a bracelet and a necklace of similar design (1986.181). Torques in antiquity were often paired with matching bracelets, though our set only has one. While in the Thracian and Scythian cultures these torque sets represented elite status, in Greek culture they came to represent non-Greek “barbarians” and were used as stereotypical symbols of non-Greeks. This silver bracelet is made from a single piece of metal.

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