Roman hoop earrings, 1st-2nd century AD
Gold
Max diameter of hoop: 1.5cm
11721 IVP
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Hollow hoop earrings with a seam along the inner curve, the ends tapering into irregularly round wires, the two ends overlap and coil around each other. Modern S-hooks.

Provenance

Private collection, Germany; acquired 19th century
Ms 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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