Earring
Object Number:
MS3345A
Current Location:
Etruscan Italy Gallery
Culture:
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Date Made:
599-500 BC
Early Date:
-599
Late Date:
-500
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Gold
Description:
Earring (of "a baule" type). One of a pair. Cylindrical, a section open. The exterior is decorated with 3 lines of small bosses with a line of beading above, below, and between. On one side of the opening a cut-out palmette extends partway across.
Height:
1.1cm
Outside Diamater:
1.3cm
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000)
Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)
Bibliography:
[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 175, C5
[Catalogue] White, Donald and Ann Blair Brownlee, Irene Bald Romano, Jean MacIntosh Turfa. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 22
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