Earring

Hook and "basket" cut from metal sheet. Top of basket has four rows of granulation (16 to 18 grains in each row), with horizontal applique wires framing and dividing all but middle two rows; basket incised (or cast) to imitate vertical wires soldered together. Rectangular plate attached to bottom of basket divided horizontally by an incised line; upper half incised with crude cross-hatching; lower, plain half pierced by seven suspension holes (ca. .001 diam.) from which hang seven loop-in-loop chains. Chains connected at about mid-length by horizontal chain attached along their backs, and end in double conoid beads with pierced-disk spacers above and below. Similar to Early Bronze Age jewelry of Troy, Lemnos (Poliochni), and Ur.