Greece (Hellenistic period)

Hellenistic Gold Snake Bracelet

2730

Crafted during the late Hellenistic period, dated between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100.

Created as a high-status personal ornament worn coiled around the wearer's wrist or upper arm, serving both as an fashionable luxury accessory and a symbolic talisman associated with healing, fertility, and protection in the Greco-Roman world.