Pair of gold armbands, Greek, ca. 200 BCE.Gold. Overall: 26.5cm, 0.2kg; height-triton armband: 25cm; height-tritoness armband: 26.5cm. Rogers Fund, 56.11.5, .6. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

These imposing serpentine armbands represent two tritons, male and female, each holding a small winged Eros. The hoops behind the tritons' heads were used to attach the armbands to the sleeves of a garment, for otherwise, their weight (each over 6 1/2 ounces) would have caused them to slip down the arms.