Earring
| Object Number: | MS3347 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Etruscan (uncertain) |
| Provenience: | Italy |
| Date Made: | 599-500 BCE |
| Early Date: | -599 |
| Late Date: | -500 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Gold Electrum (uncertain) |
| Outside Diameter: | 2.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number: | 10 - Other Number |
Description
Flat ring decorated on both sides with lines of very fine beading and cording. This is threaded thru a small braided (?) ring on which is a small roughened area suggesting that the entire ornament was attached to something else.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Chapter] Nagy, Helen, and Bell, Sinclair, and Turfa, Jean M. 2009. "Etruscan Gold from Cerveteri (and Elsewhere) in the University of Pennsylvania Museum". New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome: In Honor of Richard De Puma. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. pg. 91-118 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 106, fig. 6.9; p. 96 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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