ear-ring
- Museum number
- 1887,0108.8
- Description
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Gold earring, pair to no 9; small plain hoop; hollow sheet triangular pendant enriched with filigree; three hollow tear-shaped sheet sub-pendants; filled with sulphur.
- Production date
- 7thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
1887,0108.2 to 9 said to be from Sutri, prov. Viterbo, Italy, from a grave excavated in March, 1878, at the entrance to a vineyard in the Via dei Condotti, by Giuseppe Picchiorri. Not all of the gravegoods were acquired by the Museum, including a silver coin of Tiberius II (AD 578-82), a gold pin, gold beads and a brooch, a bronze coin and glass beads.
Published (the group):
FIORELLI G. 1878. Notizie degli Scavi. Maggio, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità 1878, Rome, pp. 159-60
HARDEN D.B. 1975. Some Lombard Glasses of the 6th and 7th Centuries, Medieval Glass in the Balkans (Vth-XVth c), Proceedings of the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, pp. 11-13, 27-8, pls. I and II
(the earrings)
ÅBERG N. 1923. Die Goten und Langobarden in Italien, Vilhelm Ekmans Universitetsfond 29. Uppsala, pp. 77-9, figs. 43-4
- Location
- On display (G41/dc18/sB)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2000 17 Jun-10 Dec, Italy, Brescia, Santa Giulia Museo della Città, The Future of the Longobards - Italy during the construction of Charlemagne’s Europe
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1887,0108.8