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Earring (Main view, flat side)
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
One of a pair of spiral earrings fashioned as an elongated coil (one and a half turns) of gold foil over a copper alloy core. At both ends are elaborate piriform terminals with beaded wire tongues and a single grain at the apex, with a corrugated sheet collar. In some places the gold has worn away, exposing the copper beneath.
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Details
- Title: Earring (Main view, flat side)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 5th century B.C.
- Physical Dimensions: 3.5 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm (1 3/8 × 3/4 × 11/16 in.)
- Type: Hair ring
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Bronze and gold
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 81.AM.174.2
- Culture: Greek
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of Herbert Solow
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Jewelry
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