Gold crescent-shaped earring - image 1

Classical

Gold crescent-shaped earring

Crescent-shaped earrings occur on Cyprus with greater or less embellishment. The majority are probably Roman. Other: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)

Date

499 BC - 99 AD

Accession No.

74.51.3892

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. XIX, 1-2, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3892, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.