Pair of Gold Earrings with Colored Beads in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011

Pair of gold earrings with colored beads

Period: Hellenistic

Date: 3rd century B.C.

Culture: Greek

Medium: Gold

Dimensions: H.: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)

Classification: Gold and Silver

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921

Accession Number: 21.88.5, .6

Description:

These earrings are a variation of the disk and pendant type that began in the sixth century B.C. and enjoyed popularity throughout the Greek world during the Hellenistic period. Here the disk has been modified into a pediment shape, and the pendants are in the form of female heads.


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