Object photograph·fol. 2r

Jewellery: rings, earrings, pendants and beads

Two dark boards covered with rows of rings, earrings, pendants and beads, with small white tags beside many pieces — Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 2r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

Two dark boards sit side by side, each holding many small pieces of jewellery laid out in rows. Hoop rings and earrings fill most of the spaces, with a large bead necklace hanging in the lower left board and star-shaped and four-petalled pendants across the right board. Small white tags stand beside many of the objects.

English

Jewellery: rings, earrings, pendants and beads: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 2r.