ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Olive Wreath

AAT Object Form/Functionhair wreaths (headgear)

AAT Object Form/Functionwreaths (costume accessories)

AAT Object Form/Functionjewelry

CultureGreek

Periodearly Hellenistic

Datelate 4th-3rd Century BCE

MediumGold

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions8 7/8 x 8 in. (22.5 x 20.3 cm)

Object number1991.014

Exhibition HistoryGoddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, January 9 - March 28, 1993
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - March 1996
Nike: Victory and Competition at the Ancient Greek Festival Games, Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 30 - August 18, 1996
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, August 1996 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 28, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesMichael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 58.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2006.
Joel LeMon, "Through the Museum with the Bible," SBL Forum, 2006.

ProvenanceEx private collection, Europe, assembled prior to early 1980s. European art market. Ex private collection, London, England, from ca. 1984-1985. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Michael Ward [Ward & Company, Works of Art, Inc.], New York, New York.

Status

On view

Collections