Jewellery & Goldsmiths' Work
Earrings
MetalworkJewellery
Details
- Author / creator
- Syria, Roman
- Object type
- Jewellery
- Date or period
- 100 BCE–100 CE
- Dimensions summary
- Diameter: 2.4 cm; Overall: 0.5 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Syria, Roman
- Period / style
- Gothic
- Place of origin
- Syria
- Acquisition method
- Bequest
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Cardew, 1985
About this object
Each of these earrings is formed from a simple hoop that ends in a hook-and-loop closure. An oval garnet is fixed below the loop on each earring; one earring has a much larger garnet, and a small ball affixed above the setting. The lower portion of each earring is decorated with two parallel rows of granules.
Materials and technique
Gold and garnet
