Gold crescent-shaped earring

Gold crescent-shaped earring

Description:

The crescent-shaped earring is very long-lived in Cyprus and, as yet, impossible to date securely. Most examples are probably Roman.


Other: 11/16 in. (1.8 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. 3903, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.3903