ear-ring
- Museum number
- 132933
- Description
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Gold ear-ring set with garnets; square head inlaid with decayed stone and six lobes each inset with a garnet, in the centre; three bells of sheet gold hang below on plaited gold wire; each stone surrounded by granulation.
- Production date
- 1stC
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.75 inches
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Width: 0.94 inches
- Curator's comments
- Cited and illustrated as a parallel for an earring depicted in Edwin Long's painting of "The Babylonian Marriage Market", although the possible model is instead a type represented by finds from Parthian graves at Nineveh.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1995-2005 17 Nov-12 Dec, BM, G52/Iran/13/32.
- Acquisition date
- 1961
- Acquisition notes
- Report to Trustees, 29 September 1961, that offered by "A. Safani"
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 132933
- Registration number
- 1961,1017.1
