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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