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 |