Composed of sheet gold over a core, the earrings are decorated with small gold balls above, the reverse with spiral filigree and s-shaped ear loops.
Composed of sheet gold over a core, the earrings are decorated with small gold balls above, the reverse with spiral filigree and s-shaped ear loops.
Provenance
American private collection, New York, acquired in the 1990s
Literature
These
earrings are typical of gold jewellery of the 1st century AD and
similar examples are depicted in the mummy portraits of the Julio-Claudian and
Flavian periods.