Pair of gold earrings with four relief faces

Unknown

late 4th–3rd century BCE · Gold · Greek and Roman Art

Hoop of plain gold with hook and eye clasp, decorated below with an applied small disk modeled as a Black African's head. Threaded on the hoop by means of a small suspension ring is a box-like hollow pendant with a slightly concave undecorated base. The four rectangular sides are embossed with alternating heads of a youth and a bearded man, all facing left. The vertical edges of the box are decorated with soldered-on strips of milled wire. The top of the box is decorated with a pyramid of larger and smaller granules. Attached to the top corners of the box are two intersecting transverse strips, slightly triangular in section, on top of which is soldered the small suspension ring mentioned above

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 4th–3rd century BCE

Medium

Gold

Culture

Phoenician

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kellen, 1999