Some Remarks on the Origins and the History of the Gold Plaques from Amathus
Kapera, Zdzisław J. (Kraków – Mogilany)
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, vol.12, Kraków (2008)
Abstract
At the beginning of the last decade of the 19th century a few very important European collections acquired an interesting group of Cypriot antiquities. Four gold plaques were purchased in 1890 by the Berlin Antiquarium and were published by A. Furtwängler. Four other objects of the same series were bought by A. S. Murray for the British Museum before July 7th, 1891. De- scriptions and drawings of the antiquities appeared in 1911 in the catalogue of the ancient jewellery of the British Museum. At a sale on June 15 and 16, 1891 in Paris four additional gold plaques were displayed. They were probably from the same group as the Berlin and London objects. And they became the nucleus of the most important set of eleven gold plaques which found its home in the Gołuchów castle near Poznań, in Great Poland (owned by Princess Izabella Działyńska)
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