Bracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezel

Bracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

There is a long tradition of bracelets with so-called Herakles knots, but for constructional reasons this one is ascribed to the Roman Period. The woman in the shroud 09.181.8 wears a bracelet with joined twisted tubes that may be similar to this one.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezelBracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezelBracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezelBracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezelBracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezel

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.