Gold necklace with crescent-shaped pendant

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1st–3rd century CE · Gold · Greek and Roman Art

Some styles of Roman jewelry were both very long-lived and used throughout the Empire. The wheel-shaped finials and the crescent pendant, symbolic of the sun and moon, that decorate this necklace are found in jewelry from a hoard found in Britain dated to the mid-second century and in depictions on Roman mummy portraits from Egypt.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st–3rd century CE

Medium

Gold

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1921