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A PAIR OF GRAECO-PERSIAN GOLD EARRINGS
CIRCA 330-300 B.C.
Each composed of a central spool, one side of each with spiralling filligree vegetation in beaded wire around a central two-tiered rosette with a gold granule at the apex, the edge of each petal with filligree beaded wire, the rosette with a border of filligree plain wire and an outer band of granulation, the edge of the disc with a border of filligree wires, two plain enclosing two twisted, the other side with a similar rosette in the center surrounded by a band of fifteen granulated grains, a band of tongue fashioned like the rosette petals, and a border of alternating bands, two of plain filigree wires and two of granulation, each disc rimmed with a collar composed of rings of plain wire, with four rows of joined hallow balls above small discs at the circumference, with a hinged arched earwire hinged at one end, and with a removable pin at the other attached to a length of loop-in-loop chain which is joined to the earring by means of a large loop at the side, the chain and pin missing in one, one rosette missing from the other
1 3/16in. (3cm.) wide
