Details
A HELLENISTIC GOLD HERAKLES KNOT EARRING
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
The tapering twisted wire ear hoop ornamented with a Herakles knot with central filigree eight-petalled rosette, flanked on double wires by a granulated lozenge below and two granulated triangles and four rosettes above, 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) long; three Mesopotamian gold hair rings of 'boat-shaped' form, 3rd millennium B.C., ½ in. (1.5 cm.) long av.; a pair of Parthian hollow gold hoop earrings, each hoop composed of two sections joined with hinge and concealed pin mechanism, decorated overall with bosses, circa 3rd Century A.D., ¾ in. (2 cm.) diam.; and a group of Near Eastern stone seals and amulets, including five Syrian and Levantine dark stone seals, late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C.; a Neo-Babylonian chalcedony domed seal, 7th Century B.C.; a Sassanian rock-crystal ring seal, 3rd-5th Century A.D., 2 in. (5 cm.) long max.; a pottery bull's head; and a Cypriot terracotta spindle whorl, red polished ware, early 2nd millennium B.C., 2 in. (5 cm.) diam. (15)
Provenance
Heidi Vollmoeller collection: acquired in 1973 (item one), in 1960 (items two to four), in 1964 (items five and six), in 1958, 1968, 1982, 1994 (items seven to ten), and in 1970 (items 12 and 13).
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