Roman hoop earrings, 1st-2nd century AD
Gold
Max diameter of hoop: 1.5cm
11721 IVP
Hollow hoop earrings with a seam along the inner curve, the ends tapering into irregularly round wires, the two ends hook into one another with a loop, the wire then twisting back on itself. Modern S-hooks.
Provenance
Private collection, Germany; acquired 19th centuryMs K. Messner, Munich, Germany; by descent from the above
Literature
For an example dated to the Ptolemaic Period in Egypt, compare Flinders Petrie, Objects of Daily Use (London, 1927), pl.Viii, no.167. Also compare Véronique Laurent, Antiquités Égyptiennes: Inventaire des Collections du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, 1997), p.279, no.502
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