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Earrings with pendant

9th-11th centuries AD

MArTA - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto

MArTA - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto
Taranto, Italy

Earrings with a simple hook fastening, from which hang truncated pyramid pendants, finely decorated with floral, semicircular and spiral motifs made of red, blue and white cloisonné enamel. These earrings are believed to be of eastern manufacture, possibly from Constantinople.

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  • Title: Earrings with pendant
  • Date Created: 9th-11th centuries AD
  • Location Created: Taranto, Contrada Montedoro, from a tomb, 1884
  • Physical Dimensions: 4 cm (height); 1.5 cm (width)
  • Medium: Gold and cloisonné enamel
  • Room: Room XXV, showcase 70, 2.1
MArTA - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto

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