A Pair of Italic Votive Bronze Hands, circa 7th Century B.C.

Each with long slender fingers and finely shaped nails, wearing a silver or electrum ring repoussé in relief with dotted bands and geometric patterns, the left hand retaining a similarly decorated bracelet.

Mathias Komor, New York [F.953], May 15th, 1981

Each cast in the lost wax technique. Left hand: thumb repaired with area below along the inner side fragmentary, repaired above wrist, tips of index finger and thumb chipped, bracelet repared from two pieces with losses around edges; right hand: pitting on top surfaces, small loss to ring, note semicurlar loss along edge at wrist.
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