Gold chevron-shaped earring

Gold chevron-shaped earring

Description:

This form of earring may have been the antecedent of the boat-shaped variety.


Other: 9/16 in. (1.4 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

599 - 400 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3162, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.3162