Earring

MS3349

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS3349
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Etruscan
Provenience Italy
Date Made 499-400 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Gold
Description

Earring (tubular type) with ring. Comparativelt thick hoop, hollow, circular in section. Probably not intended for pierced ear: too thick at ends. Near one end is a sphere encircled by a ridge. Behind it are 4 lines of beading across hoop terminating in a group of 3 tiny circles. In the cener of the lines of beading is a small loop thru which is threaded a pendant ring of twisted tiny beading. Intact.

Outside Diameter 1.8 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 12 - Other Number

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