Earring
MS3348
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS3348 |
Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
Culture | South Italian |
Provenience | Italy |
Manufacture Location | Tarentum (uncertain) |
Period | Hellenistic Period |
Date Made | 350-250 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Gold |
Description | The main finial is hollow with a hook for catching the ear pin in the mouth. Mane is a double ring. Elaborate neck has two sections, one is three vine leaves in filigree encircled by two bands of spool wire, the second is a pointed vine leaf pattern formed by filigree. The hoop is made of several strands of double rope wire twisted into a spiral ending in a small poorly modeled lion head finial with a plain neck. Pin is broken away. Main finial battered and pressed in. Lion head would be upside down when worn. |
Height | 2.1 cm |
Credit Line | Museum Purchase; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
Other Number | 11 - Other Number |
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