Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings

Unknown

2nd century BCE · Gold, garnet, enamel, glass · Greek and Roman Art

The earrings have terminals representing the head of Apis, the sacred Egyptian bull, identified by the sun disk and crescent set between his horns. In Ptolemaic Egypt, the cult of Apis was combined with that of Osiris to create a new Greco-Egyptian deity, Sarapis.

Artist

Unknown

Date

2nd century BCE

Medium

Gold, garnet, enamel, glass

Culture

Greek, Ptolemaic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Purchase, The Bothmer Purchase Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994