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Description: | Gold earring. Identified by Lindsay Allason-Jones as a 2nd Century Roman ear ring of probable Eastern Mediterranean provenance.Richard Hobbs (Romano-British Curator at teh British Musuem) has prepared the following report:Gold ear-ring, consisting of a large hoop, circular in section which slightly swells from the terminals. The attachment terminals form a hook-and-eye arrangement. The hoop has a number of different decorative elements: a fixed polyhedral bead of green glass, and another probable bead which has now broken away; a loose rope-style cylinder of filigree wire and four free-floating gold beads of reel type, decorated with pyramids of gold grains.The ear-ring is unlikely to be of Romano-British manufacture. It was probably produced somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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