Gold crescent-shaped earring

Gold crescent-shaped earring

Description:

Cresent earrings are developed from the symmetrical hoop-type by expanding the body into a flat cresent-shaped plate.


Other: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

499 BC - 99 AD

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3871, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.3871