Gold earring with clustered sphere - image 1

Roman

Gold earring with clustered sphere

The hoop is slender; at the lowest point is a cluster of hollow gold balls, rendered as if attached to the hoop by a lashing gold wire. Other: 1 in. (2.6 cm)

Date

100 - 299 AD

Accession No.

74.51.3175

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3175, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.