id: 154234
accession number: 1988.5
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Turned Armilla, c. 1500 BC. Hungary, Bronze Age, c. 2500-800 BC. Bronze, wrought; overall: 12.5 x 10.4 cm (4 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.5
title: Turned Armilla
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creation date: c. 1500 BC
creation date earliest: -1505
creation date latest: -1495
current location: 106A Migration Period & Coptic
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Hungary, Bronze Age, c. 2500-800 BC
technique: bronze, wrought
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - European Bronze Age
type: Metalwork
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measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 10.4 cm (4 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1988
opening date: 1989-03-01T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 4, p. 115, repr. p. 86.
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PROVENANCE
Count Keglevics; Dr. S. Egger, Vienna, sold Sotheby, 1891; Pitt Rivers; (Michael Ward, New York).
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This armilla or arm ornament has a ridge along the spine, ending in a spiral at both ends.
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Europe. As the spiral mimics forms found in nature - specifically in nautilus shells - it is the basis for logarithmic measures of progression in measurement and growth, which in turn help establish the Fibonacci sequence. Through this sequence we can analyze the phenomenon of spiral designs, specifically in nautilus shells, where the radius of each new chamber grows at a rate determined by a specific proportion to the previous one.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 4
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20
Kozloff, Arielle P. "Ancient East-European Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (1993): 122-26.
page number: Reproduced: p. 123; Mentioned: p. 122-26
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161398
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.5/1988.5_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.5/1988.5_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.5/1988.5_full.tif