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Earring

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Object Number:MS3345B
Current Location: Etruscan Italy Gallery
Currently On Display
Culture:Etruscan
Provenience: Italy
Date Made: 599-500 BCE
Early Date: -599
Late Date: -500
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Gold
Height: 1.1 cm
Width: 1.3 cm
Depth: 1.4 cm
Outside Diameter:1.4 cm
Credit Line:Museum Purchase; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number:8 - Other Number

Description

Earring (of "a baule" type). One of a pair. With granular and filigree work. 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.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944) View Objects in Exhibition
Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003) View Objects in Exhibition
Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects.. London. Dorling Kindersley Limited. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 78View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Turfa, Jean M. 2013. The Etruscan World.. New York. Routledge. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 920, fig. 50.5View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[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. 94, fig. 6.1; p. 96, 98View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 175, no. 164; p. C5, pl. 23-24View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M., and Romano, Irene B., and Brownlee, Ann B., and White, Donald J. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 22, no. 34View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, and Follett, T. 1985. "Curating Behavior In Old World Archaeology". MASCA Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 3. pg. 150-153 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: o. 151View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 209, no. 15View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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