Silver-gilt and Iron Pectoral in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2007

Silver-gilt and iron pectoral
Greek, 4th century BC

Accession # 1996.248

This pectoral formed part of a cuirass (body armor). The vertical neck guard is embellished with metopes decorated alternately with rosettes and confronted lions. The area below, which spread across the upper chest, has concentric decorative bands. Pectorals of this distinctive shape have been found in tombs at Vergina in northern Greece and in Thrace (present-day Bulgaria).

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.