Cuirass Backplate

Place CreatedAfrati, Crete, Greece, Europe

CultureGreek, Cretan

PeriodArchaic

Date7th Century BCE

MediumBronze

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions17 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (45.1 x 40 x 14 cm)

Object number2003.009.002

Exhibition HistoryDadalische Kunst auf Kreta im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 1970
Von Troja bis Amar, Agyptische Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1978
Greek Art of the Aegean Islands, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, November 1, 1979 - February 10, 1980
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - June 5, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesHerbert Hoffman and A.E. Raubitschek, Early Cretan Armorers (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1972), 9, no. C8, pls. 28-29.
Jurgen Settgast, Von Troja bis Amarna: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, New York (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1978), no 16.
Greek Art of the Aegean Islands: An Exhibition (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), 144-45 number 94.
Sotheby's New York, Antiquities from the Norbert Schimmel Collection (December 13, 1992), lot 37.
Hermann Born, Restaurierung antiker Bronzewaffen (Mainz: Sammlung Guttmann bei Zabern, 1993), no. XV.
Herman Born and Svend Hansen, Helme und waffen Alteuropas (Mainz: Sammlung Guttmann bei von Zabern, 2001), 87, pl. 70 (AG 432).
Christie's London, The Art of Warfare: The Axel Guttmann Collection, Part 1 (November 6, 2002), lot 50.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Jasper Gaunt, "New Galleries of Greek & Roman Art at Emory University: The Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 16 (January/February 2005): 13-17.

ProvenanceEx coll. Norbert Schimmel (1904-1990), New York and Florida, from at least 1972. Sotheby's New York, December 13, 1992, lot 37. Ex coll. Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin, Germany. Purchased by MCCM from Christies London, Sale 9482, November 6, 2002, lot 50.

Status

On view

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